Leonard B. Willeke was an architect.
Biography
He was a native of Cincinnati
and worked there with
Tietig & Lee in 1911 and was listed with The Allyn Co. in 1914.
Then he moved to Detroit where he "maintained a prestigious practice until his death".
[Walter E. Langsa]
Leonard B. Willeke
Biographical Dictionary of Cincinnati Architects, Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati He "combined" Arts & Crafts with "a basis in Traditional styles" and was featured in a "highly-illustrated biography" by Thomas Brunk.
Edsel and Eleanor Ford were "acquainted" with Willeke and he did residential design work for them, Roscoe B. Jackson, and Mrs. William Clay of Detroit in 1917 and 1918, as well as
Henry Ford and his wife Clara.
He was contracted to do the design work to house 3,500 Ford employees at "Fordson Village" until it was abandoned for the "much smaller" Molony site, with 12 house designs that were also by Willeke.
[Ford Richardson Bryan]
Beyond the Model T: the other ventures of Henry Ford page 79- He is also credited as the architect of
Medbury's-Grove Lawn Subdivisions Historic District, listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
References
Further reading
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* Thomas W. Brunk and Leonard Bernard Willeke ''Leonard B. Willeke, Excellence in Architecture and Design'' University of Detroit, School of Architecture Staff (Hardcover)
* Langsam (1997), 4, 93-94, 115-17, 129;
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Architects from Cincinnati
Architects from Detroit
20th-century American architects