Birth/Established: 1888 Death/Dissolved: May 17, 1958
Biography:
J. Ellsworth Potter was born in Ashtabula. At sixteen he was the youngest county engineer in Ashtabula County. He was featured in an April 1912 issue of the Ohio Architect and Builder as the junior member of the Akron architectural firm of Haglock & Potter. He was a church and school architect with offices in Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Gary, Indiana. He was listed as a registered architect in the November 1940 Ohio Architect.
The following are abbreviations used throughout the database
AABN – American Architect and Builders News (1876 – 1909) bp – City of Cleveland Building Permits (1889 – present) cd – City Directories mps – Mary Peale Schofield files – Western Reserve Historical Society Inland – Inland Architect Intestate – Interstate Architect and Builder (1899 – 1902) nd – no date NRHP – National Register of Historic Places OAB – Ohio Architect and Builder (1903 – 1909) OAEB – Ohio Architect, Engineer and Builder (1910 – 1919) ohi – Ohio Historical Inventory form PD – Plain Dealer