Elah Terrell
Terrell designed important buildings under the company Elah T. Terrell & Co. In Ohio, notably in Sheffield, Lorain County, and Columbus. Terrell was a member of the Ohio chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Elah Terrell
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- Born
- 1851
- Died
- 1920
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- architect
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Terrell designed important buildings under the company Elah T. Terrell & Co. In Ohio, notably in Sheffield, Lorain County, and Columbus. Terrell was a member of the Ohio chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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Terrell's office was in the Merchants and Manufacturers' National Bank building in Downtown Columbus, a building he designed. Around 1888, Elah Terrell designed numerous structures in the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Several remain, including Power Hall, later known as Antiques and Collectibles, and an information booth or kiosk southeast of the Administration Building.
• Illustration — Terrell's house at 749 Dennison Avenue, c.1889 Terrell was born in 1851, one of seven children of Jay and Etna Terrell. Terrell married Isabel Gay, of Elyria, on January 2, 1884. They lived at a house in present-day Victorian Village in Columbus, Ohio. The house stood from 1888 to 1947, for most of its time beside the Peter Sells house facing Goodale Park. Terrell died on February 16, 1920.
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Notable works
• East Broad Street Presbyterian Church (Columbus, Ohio) • Norwich Hotel (Columbus, Ohio) • Merchants and Manufacturers' National Bank or National Bank of Commerce (Columbus, Ohio) • Columbus Board of Trade Building (Columbus, Ohio) • Clinton DeWeese Firestone mansion (Columbus, Ohio) • Tennessee Club–Overall Goodbar Building (Memphis, Tennessee) • Olde Towne Hall Theater (Ridgeville, Ohio) • Elyria High School (Elyria, Ohio) • Schools in Johnstown and Groveport, Ohio • William Day House (Sheffield, Ohio) • Sheffield Village Hall (Sheffield, Ohio)
Page from Columbus Illustrated, a book published in 1889.
Columbus Illustrated, (International Pub. Co., 1889) OH 977.13 C72 C7261]
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- 1.Chicago : Inland Pub. Co. The Inland architect and news record. June 15, 1887.
- 2.Columbus Metropolitan Library
- 3.Ware, Jane. Building Ohio : A traveler's guide to Ohio's urban architecture. Orange Frazer Press. 2001. 9781882203741.
- 4.Chapter 6. Sheffield Progresses. virteomdevcdn.
- 5."Married: Terrell-Gay", Elyria Republican, January 10, 1884, page 5.
- 6.Short North Historic Buildings. All Columbus Data. 26 May 2019.
- 7.Arcadia. Historic Hotels of Columbus, Ohio. 7 September 2015. 9781625854230.
- 8.092M5541919.
- 9.Board of Trade took awhile to take root. ThisWeek Community News.
- 10.579F523. digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org.
- 11.Tennessee Club. SAH ARCHIPEDIA. July 17, 2018.
- 12.North Ridgeville. Heritage Ohio.
- 13.North American Book Dist LLC. Ohio Historic Places Dictionary. December 2008. 9781878592705.
- 14.Statesman Steam Press. Annual Report of the State Commissioner of Common Schools, to the Governor of the State of Ohio, for the Year. 1887.
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