Alfred Oscar Elzner (1862–1933) was a prominent

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architect in Cincinnati, Ohio. Along with George M. Anderson, he formed a partnership known as the firm of Elzner & Anderson.

Biography of Elzner

Elzner studied art with

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, C.T. Webber, and

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, and attended the

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and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked for James W. McLaughlin in Cincinnati during the early 1880s and was superintendent for

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's Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building. 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

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, is said to have been "the first reinforced concrete high-rise office building in the world." Elzner's clientele included members of the prominent Taft, Emery,

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, and Bullock families, as well as "Cincinnati’s German-American elite."A.O. Elzner
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Projects

* Children's Home Admin. Bldg. Cinti, Ohio D.Meinken&Sons General Contractor Cinti, Ohio * Children's Home East and West Homes Madisonville, Ohio D.Meinken&Sons Contractor Cinti, Ohio * The Children's Hospital Nurses' Home D.Meinken & Sons General Contractor Cinti, Ohio * George Hoadley Jr. House in Cincinnati, NRHP listed * Cincinnati Y.M.C.A. (before 1919) NWC Central Parkway and Elm St. * Designs for the

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on Grandin Rd, Hyde Park * Linden Place, Cincinnati (1924) * Homestead Hotel, Hot Springs, VirginiaELZNER, ALFRED O.
American Architects' biographies, Society of Architectural Historians one of architects credited. * New Jerusalem Church, Cincinnati * J.B. Schroder & Co. residence and hardware store in Cincinnati * Old Timbers Lodge at the US Army Jefferson Proving Ground, approximately .5 mi. SE of jct. of K Rd. and Northeast Exit in Madison, Indiana (credited to Elzner), NRHP listed (built by Alexander Thomson?) * Procter and Collier-Beau Brummell Building 440 E. McMillan St. in Cincinnati, NRHP listed * Edward R. Stearns House 333 Oliver Rd. Wyoming, Ohio, NRHP listed * Stimson Memorial Hall Maine 26 E side, .5 mi. N of jct. with US 202 Gray, Maine, NRHP listed * Berea College, Kentucky (1932 addition and upgrade) to the first interracial and coeducational college in the SouthHistoric Landmark Gets a Modern Renovation
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Biography of Elzner

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