LORENZO DOW CLEVELAND
(1822 - 1905)
Page 961, #2643
Lorenzo Dow Cleveland was born in Tisbury, Massachusetts, on July 5, 1922. He attended Dukes County Academy, Martha’s Vineyard, and in 1839 he obtained a four year apprenticeship in New Bedrford Massachusetts to train as a joiner, contractor and builder. He served the apprenticeship with David R. Pierce, joiner, contractor, and builder, of New Bedford, Mass. Later, he and studied architecture with Josiah Brown of Fall River, Massachusetts.
He practiced his profession in New Bedford to 1855, when he went West and located in Alton, Illinois , whence he moved, to Springfield, Illinois, in 1862 and remained to 1869, when he located in in 1870 Chicago, Illinois. Lorenzo Dow Cleaveland is a well-known architect in the West, and enjoys a. well earned and justly deserved reputation. During his professional career he has been architect of many important public and private edifices throughout the Northwestern states.
For a number of years from 1876 he was city superintendent of buildings in Chicago. During 1881 was associated in business with Henry Lord Gay. He was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1873 and a fellow in 1886. He was president of the Chicago chapter of the AAIA. Starting in 1892, he supervised the construction of to buildings for the Chicago, World’s Fair of 1893.
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NOTE 2: There are two Lorenzo Dow Cleveland’s.