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Alfred Oscar Elzner

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The Edward R. Stearns House in Wyoming, Ohio, built 1902

Alfred Oscar Elzner (1862–1933) was a prominent American architect in Cincinnati, Ohio. Along with George M. Anderson, he formed a partnership known as the firm of Elzner & Anderson.

Biography of Elzner

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The 15-story Ingalls Building (1903) in Cincinnati, Ohio was the world's first reinforced concrete skyscraper

Elzner studied art with Thomas Satterwhite Noble, C.T. Webber, and Frank Duveneck, and attended the Ohio Mechanics Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] He worked for James W. McLaughlin in Cincinnati during the early 1880s and was superintendent for H.H. Richardson's Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building.[1]

Elzner established his own practice in 1887; he was joined by George M. Anderson in 1896. His firm, Elzner & Anderson, designed the Ingalls Building in Northwest Cincinnati at the intersection of Fourth Street and Vine Street, diagonally opposite Richardson's Chamber of Commerce Building. The Ingalls Building, named for railroad baron Melville E. Ingalls, is said to have been "the first reinforced concrete high-rise office building in the world."[1] Elzner's clientele included members of the prominent Taft, Emery, Procter, and Bullock families, as well as "Cincinnati’s German-American elite."[1]

Projects

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j A.O. Elzner Biographical dictionary of architects
  2. ^ a b ELZNER, ALFRED O. Archived 2010-11-28 at the Wayback Machine American Architects' biographies, Society of Architectural Historians
  3. ^ Old Timbers (added 1996 - Building - #96000786) US Army Jefferson Proving Ground, approximately .5 mi. SE of jct. of K Rd. and Northeast Exit, Madison NRHP Listing
  4. ^ Historic Landmark Gets a Modern Renovation Fall 2003 Berea College Magazine page 21

Further reading

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  • Obituary, Cincinnati Enquirer (12/7/1933);

Langsam (1997), 2, 4, 39, 64–65, 73, 89–90, 92, 97, 104–105, 106–107, 117, 140, 156; Painter, Sullebarger, Merkel, AIC (2006), 77, 123, 138, 139, 147, 152, 154–56, 193, 215, 260, 280, 281; Nuxhall, SGC, 17, Lot 60.