death_place death_date birth_place practice birth_date article_title name alma_mater
bratenahl , ohio 16 october 1958 washington , d.c. meade & garfield 21 november 1872 abram garfield
 abram garfield williams college , massachusetts institute of technology
abram garfield

abram garfield -lrb- november 21 , 1872 -- october 16 , 1958 -rrb- was the youngest son of president james a. garfield and lucretia rudolph garfield , and an architect who practiced in cleveland , ohio .
garfield received a bachelor of arts from williams college in 1893 and a bachelor of science in architecture from the massachusetts institute of technology three years later .
by 1898 , garfield had joined with frank meade to form the architectural firm meade & garfield in cleveland , ohio ; the firm was noted for its residential designs .
when the partnership ended in 1905 , garfield opened his own firm , which he ran until 1951 .
garfield specialized in residential architecture , designing large houses in shaker heights and other cleveland suburbs , but his work also included more modest houses for the cleveland metropolitan housing authority and institutional projects such as schools and a hospital .
garfield served as chairman of the cleveland planning commission from 1930 to 1942 and was a founder and first president of the cleveland school of architecture , which became part of western reserve university in 1941 .
he was named a trustee of the university that year and two years later was made an honorary lifetime member of the board ; he received an honorary doctorate from western reserve university in 1945 .
garfield was also a director of the american institute of architects from 1919 to 1922 and served on the u.s. commission of fine arts from 1925 to 1930 , including as vice chairman from 1929 to 1930 .
in 1949 he was elected into the national academy of design as an associate academician .
a number of his works are listed on the national register of historic places .
