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Walker and Weeks was the foremost architectural firm of the 1920s in Cleveland, Ohio. It was was founded by Frank R. Walker (1877-1949) and Harry E. Weeks (1871-1935). Both were Massachusetts natives and arrived in Cleveland at the suggestion of John M. Carrere, a member of the Cleveland Group Plan Commission. Both men joined the firm of J. Milton Dyer before establishing their own practice in 1911.
Walker & Weeks were known as specialists in bank buildings, completing sixty throughout Ohio. In Cleveland, however, they were better known for their design of major commercial, public, and religious structures in classical revival styles. A partial list of their major projects includes the Bingham Co. Warehouse (1915); the Guardian (National City Bank) Building renovation (1915); Public Auditorium (1922); the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1923); the Cleveland Public Library (1925); the United Banking and Trust Coompany at West 25th and Lorain (1926); Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church, with architect Bertram Goodhue (1928); First Baptist Church in Shaker Heights (1929); St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights (1929); Pearl Street Savings and Trust at West 25th and Clark (1929); and the Cleveland Municipal Stadium with the Osborn Engineering Company (1931). From 1926 on, the firm occupied a building of their own design at 2341 Carnegie Avenue. After Walker's death, the firm, headed by Howard F. Horn and Frank E. Rhinehart, briefly continued under its original name. Horn & Rhinehart then became the successor firm ca. 1953.
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The Walker and Weeks Photographs, ca. 1920-1950, consist of photographs and negatives of the buildings, arches, memorials, and proposed plans designed by the Cleveland, Ohio architectural firm of Walker and Weeks. Buildings and structures depicted include Cuyahoga County Hospital; Allen Memorial Library; the American Legion statue; the Burton Memorial; Broadway Savings and Trust Co.; Cleveland Board of Education; Case Observatory; Citizens Savings and Trust Co.; Cleveland Discount Co.; Cleveland Heights High School; Cleveland Post Office; several branches of the Cleveland Public Library; the Cleveland Mall plan; Collinwood Neighborhood Center; Columbus Memorial Lighthouse competition; Commerce National Bank of Toledo, Ohio; proposed plans of Fairmount Presbyterian Church; First Church of Christ Scientist; Foster Mausoleum; Garfield Bank; Gates Mills Town Hall; Cleveland Museum of Art; Guaranty Savings and Loan Co.; Guardian Bank Building; Hanna family headstones; Harrison County, W. Va. Courthouse; Hathaway Brown School; Hattonchata Arch, Hatlonchatel, Belgium; Lincoln Memorial in Cleveland; Lorain County Savings and Trust Co.; Merchants Bank; Metcalf family headstones; Midland Bank; Montfaucon Clock Tower, Montfaucon, Belgium; Mount Union College; Oberlin College swimming pool; Ohio Wesleyan College; Public Auditorium; Street Light Standard; Severance Hall; United Banking and Trust Co.; Central National Bank; Providence Memorial, Providence, Rhode Island; University Circle; University School; Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia; and various unidentified photographs and negatives. The collection includes approximately 500 black and white photographs measuring 10 x 13 inches and smaller.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of commercial, public, and religious architecture in Cleveland and northeast Ohio in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly the structures designed by Walker and Weeks.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] PG 109 Walker and Weeks Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.