Sidney Badgley

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Sidney Rose Badgley (May 28, 1850 - April 29, 1917) was a prominent turn-of-the-century Canadian-born architect. He was active throughout the United States and Canada, with a significant body of work in Cleveland.

[edit] Biography

Badgley was born in Ernestown Township, Ontario, Canada, and apprenticed in Toronto. He moved to Cleveland in 1887 and formed a partnership with William H. Nicklas. He designed buildings in a variety of styles, including Georgian Revival (Jones Home For Friendless Children), Gothic Revival (Calvary Baptist Church), with its lantern-dome-crowned auditorium, and Romanesque (Pilgrim Congregational Church). With Pilgrim Congregational Church, Badgley pioneered the inclusion of an institute for community use within a church building. Badgley's design was exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Slocum Hall, on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

[edit] Selected Works

• Welland Avenue Methodist (United) Church, St. Catharines, Ontario, 1877
• St. Catharines Public Library, St. Catharines, Ontario, n.d.
• St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Carleton Place, Ontario, 1887
• Euclid Avenue Church of God, Cleveland, Ohio, 1890
• Central Methodist (United) Church, St. Thomas, Ontario, 1897
• Centenary Methodist Church, Montreal, Quebec, 1891
• Fidelity Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1891
• St. Timothy Missionary Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1891
• Scranton Road Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1893
• Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, 1894
• Pilgrim Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1894
• Giovanni Barricelli House, Cleveland, Ohio, 1896
• Slocum Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 1898
• Ohio Wesleyan Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1900
• Jones Home for Friendless Children, Cleveland, Ohio, 1902
• St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church, [1] South Bend, Indiana, 1903
• Lakewood United Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1904
• Cleveland Heights Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1904
• Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church [2], Richmond, Indiana, 1904-06
• Central Methodist (United) Church, Calgary, Alberta, 1905
• Calvary Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1907
• St. John AME Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908
• Grace Methodist Church, Zanesville, Ohio, 1909
• Fourth Reformed Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1909
• Deering Memorial United Methodist Church, South Paris, Maine 1910-1911
• Highland Park Presbyterian Church (Michigan), 1910-11
• Woodward Ave. Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1911
• First Presbyterian Church, Wichita, Kansas, 1912

[edit] Sources

• Tomlan, Mary Raddant and Michael A. Richmond, Indiana: Its Physical and Aesthetic Heritage to 1920, Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2003