Sidney Badgley

Sidney Rose Badgley (May 28, 1850 – April 29, 1917) was a prominent start of the 20th-century Canadian-born architect. He was active throughout the United States and Canada, with a significant body of work in Cleveland.

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 in 1904 after Nicklas came to work for Badgley as a draftsman. The partnership was dissolved in 1913. 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 Revival (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 1900 Exposition. Slocum Hall, on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Badgley died at his home at Springbrook Farm in Willoughby in 1917 and is buried as Victoria Cemetery in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Selected works

Building	Year Completed	Builder	Style	Source	Location	Image
Massey Hall	1894	Sidney Badgley	Gothic Revival	W	178 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario
Slocum Hall	1898	Sidney Badgley	Gothic Revival		Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
Deering Memorial United Methodist Church, gift of William Deering	1910–1911	Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas	Gothic Revival		South Paris, Maine
Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church,[1]	1904–06	Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas	Gothic Revival		Richmond, Indiana
Calvary Baptist Church	1907	Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas	Gothic Revival		Providence, Rhode Island
Highland Park Presbyterian Church (Michigan)	1910–11	Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas	Gothic Revival		Detroit, Michigan
Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church	1911	Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas	Gothic Revival		Detroit, Michigan

• 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 (originally First United Presbyterian), Cleveland, Ohio, 1891
• Lincoln Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, OH, 1892
• Scranton Road Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1893
• Pilgrim Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1894
• Giovanni Barricelli House, Cleveland, Ohio, 1896
• Ohio Wesleyan Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1900
• Gammon United Methodist Church (currently the North American Motherhouse of Fraternite Notre Dame), Chicago, Illinois, 1900 original design by Badgley, rebuilt after fire to Badgley's original design again in 1909
• Jones Home for Friendless Children, Cleveland, Ohio, 1902
• St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church,^[2] South Bend, Indiana, 1903
• Lakewood United Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1904
• Cleveland Heights Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1904
• Central Methodist (United) Church, Calgary, Alberta, 1905
• St. John AME Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908
• Grace Methodist Church, Zanesville, Ohio, 1909
• Fourth Reformed Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1909
• Trinity United Methodist Chursh, Athens, Tennessee 1910
• Fidelity Baptist Church, Cleveland, OH, 1911
• First Presbyterian Church, Wichita, Kansas, 1912
• First Presbyterian Church, Howell, Michigan, 1914–1915
• First United Methodist Church, Shenandoah, Iowa

NRHP-listed U.S. works

Works by Badgley that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and likely preserved, include:^[3]

• Calvary Baptist Church, 747 Broad St. Providence RI Badgley,Sidney Rose
• Deering Memorial United Methodist Church, 39 Main St. Paris ME Badgley and Nicklas
• Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 14 Cortland St. Highland Park MI Badgley,Sidney Rose
• Jones Home for Children, 3518 W. Twenty-fifth St. Cleveland OH Badgley,Sidney R.
• Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2592 W. 14th St. Cleveland OH Badgley,Sidney R.
• Slocum Hall, OWU Main Campus, Sandusky St. Delaware OH Badgley,S.R.
• St. John's AME Church, 2261 E. 40th St. Cleveland OH Badgley & Nicklas
• Woodward Ave. Presbyterian Church, 8501 Woodward Ave. Detroit MI Badgley,Sidney Rose
• One or more properties in Austin Town Hall Park Historic District Roughly bounded by West Lake St., N. Central Ave., N. Parkside Ave., and West Race Ave. Chicago IL (Badgley, Sidney R.)
• First Presbyterian Church, Howell, Michigan,(part of the Howell Downtown Historic District,) 323 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, MI

External links

• Sidney Badgley at Find a Grave

Notes

Sources

• Tomlan, Mary Raddant and Michael A. Richmond, Indiana: Its Physical and Aesthetic Heritage to 1920, Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2003
• Loring,Ken and the 150th Anniversary Committee, First Presbyterian Church, Howell, Michigan, Our Heritage, 1838–1988, Howell, Michigan, 323 West Grand River, Howell, Michigan, Self-published by the Church, 1988 http://www.fpchowell.org
• Cleveland Architects Database: Sidney R. Badgley
• Cleveland Architects Database: Badgley and Nicklas

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