Corbusier

Architect/Firm: John Corbusier
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Name: John William Cresswell Corbusier

Birth/Established: October 31, 1877 Death/Dissolved: June 8, 1928

Firm Affiliation:

Corbusier, Lenski & Foster

Biography:

John William Cresswell Corbusier was a native of Rochester, New York and a graduate of the Mechanics Institute who gained practical experience in Buffalo, New York and New York City, where he worked in the office of Cass Gilbert. He became the lead draftsman in the office of H.V.B. Magonigle who won the competition for the McKinley Memorial in Canton. While in this office he won the gold metal of the New York architectural league. He married the daughter of H. F. Lyman of the Upson-Walton Company. He spent two years in Paris after his marriage, where he continued his study of the gothic cathedral. Upon his return to the United States, he settled in Cleveland, associating with Ralph Adams Cram in erecting the Church of the Covenant, and with Henry Vaughn on the Flora Stone Mather Chapel of Adelbert College. He later went into partnerships with George S. Page and then with William E. Foster. He was a noted church architect. He moved to Hudson in 1911 where he was instrumental in early historic preservation efforts, designing several structures that fit into the character of the early Western Reserve architecture of the town. He was an accomplished singer and was in charge of music at the First Congregational Church in Hudson. Corbusier died of a heart attack while dancing at the Hudson Club at the age of forty-nine. According to his obituary he also designed several unidentified churches in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Orlando, FL, Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Toledo, and Massillon.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Seymour Hall	1913	115 College Street Hudson	Standing
Evangelical Church of the...	1913-4	50 North Prospect Akron, Ohio	Standing
Church of the Ascension	1916	13216 Detroit Avenue Lakewood	Standing
Hudson Elementary School	1916	34 Oviatt Street Hudson	Demolished
Church of the Good Shephe...	1917	1100 Stockton Street Jacksonville	Standing
J. W. C. Corbusier Reside...	1917	226 College Street Hudson	Standing
Lakewood Baptist Church	1917	14721 Detroit Lakewood	Standing
First Congregational Chur...	1919	47 Aurora Street Hudson	Standing
Church of the Good Shephe...	1920-1	1100 Stockton Street Jacksonville	Standing
Ellsworth Hall Western Re...	1922	178 College Street Hudson	Standing
Trinity Lutheran Church	1922	16400 Detroit Avenue Lakewood	Standing
Springfield Presbyterian ...	1922-3	207 West 6th Street Jacksonville	Standing
Grace Lutheran Church	1924	16th and Varnum NW Washington	Standing
St. John's Evangelical Ch...	1926-7	122 W. Ottawa St. Oak Harbor	Standing
St. Paul Lutheran Church	1926-7	127 Cherry Road NE Massillon	Standing
Church of the Saviour	1926-8	2531 Lee Road Cleveland Heights	Standing
Grace Lutheran Church	1927	13001 Cedar Avenue Cleveland Heights	Standing
St. John's Lutheran Churc...	1927	Market and Seventh Zanesville	Standing
Church of the Good Shephe...	1928	1100 Stockton Street Jacksonville	Standing
Salmon Halle Residence	1928-9	2701 Park Drive Shaker Heights	Standing
First Presbyterian Churc...	1929	250 West 7th Street Erie	Standing
Residence	c 1912	17050 South Park Shaker Heights	Standing

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Campen, Richard Distinguished Homes of Shaker Heights p 22

Cleveland City Directories

Hudson : A Survey of Historic Buildings; edited by Lois Newkirk; KSU: Kent and London, 1989

Van Tassel, David and Grabowski, John J.; The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography; Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1976

Wood, Wayne W.; Jacksonville?s Architectural Heritage; Jacksonville: University of North Florida Press, nd

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