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The University Club, Stager-Beckwith Mansion
1866, addition: 1913, 1925, 1955
Original Architect: J. Milton Dyer, Small and Rowly, and J. Trevor Guy
Client: The Ferchill Group
Site: 3813 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
Rehabilitation: University facility
Square Footage: 66,000 sq. ft.
Cost of Construction: $10 Million
Opened: September, 2004
Services Provided: Architect of Record; Interior Design, Preservation Consultant for Federal historic Tax Credit, Conservation Easement
The mansion was built in 1866 for Anson Stager, the general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1869, he sold the house to T. Sterling Beckwith of Beckwith, Sterling and Company a carpet and interior decorating firm. A group of men purchased the house in 1913 to begin the University Club of Cleveland that grew and prospered during most of the 20th century. It is one of the last remaining mansions of “Millionaire’s Row”. Rehabilitation of the Italianate and Second French Empire style mansion included converting the Mansion, Annex, Carriage House and Sports Center into the main campus building for Myers University.
ARCHITECTURE • HISTORIC PRESERVATION • CODE ANALYSIS
URBAN DESIGN • PLANNING • ADVOCACY
URBAN DESIGN • PLANNING • ADVOCACY
