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 at Victoria Cemetery in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Selected works BuildingYear CompletedBuilderStyleSourceLocationImage Massey Hall 1894 Sidney Badgley Gothic Revival W 178 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario 100px Slocum Hall 1898 Sidney Badgley Gothic Revival Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 100px Lamson House 1899 Sidney Badgley Gothic Revival Center Rd (Formerly North St), Bedford, Ohio 100px Deering Memorial United Methodist Church, gift of William Deering 1910–1911 Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas Gothic Revival South Paris, Maine 100px Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1904–06 Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas Gothic Revival Richmond, Indiana 100px 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 100px Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church 1911 Sidney Badgley & William H. Nicklas Gothic Revival Detroit, Michigan 100px

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 Henry Hammersley House, 1849 East 89th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1888 St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, 473 Cumberland Street, Ottawa, 1888 First Methodist Church, 123 West Church, Barnesville, 1888 Frank Kitzsteiner Residence, 2075 Fairview Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1889 Residence for James Kyser, 2179 East 83rd Street, Cleveland, OH, 1889 Residence for James Kyser, 2175 East 83rd Street, Cleveland, OH, 1889 Bolton Street Presbyterian Chapel, 2114 East 89th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1890 Euclid Avenue Church of God, Cleveland, Ohio, 1890 Grace M. E. Church, 2408 East 83rd Street, Cleveland, OH, 1890 George Mitchell Residence, 2168 East 79th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1890 Residence for Will P. Todd, 2201 East 89th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1890 United Missionary Baptist Church, 9312 Union Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1891 Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church (Grace Protestant Episcopal Church), 9028 Harvard Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1891 Superior Street Baptist Church, 2445-51 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1891 Free Will Baptist Church, 8402 Wade Park Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1891 St. Timothy Missionary Baptist Church, 7101 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1891 Hough Avenue Baptist Church, 1650 East 65th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1891 Centenary Methodist Church, Montreal, Quebec, 1891 Fidelity Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1891 St. Timothy Missionary Baptist Church (originally First United Presbyterian), Cleveland, Ohio, 1891 Jennings Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, 2587 West 14th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1892 First Presbyterian Church, 22 Church Street, Gouverneur, 1892 Wade Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, 8520 Wade Park Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1892 Lincoln Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, OH, 1892 Mt. Union Methodist Episcopal Church, 1849 South Union, Alliance, OH, 1893 Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2592 West 14th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1893 Cedar Avenue Baptist Church, 10302 Cedar Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1893 Willson United Methodist Church, 1561 East 55th, Cleveland, OH, 1893 Baptist Church, 52 Church Street, Gouverneur, NY, 1893 Scranton Road Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1893 First Presbyterian Church, 300 Market Street, Warren, OH, 1894 Trinity Methodist Church, 9900 Madison Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1894 Medina County Infirmary, 6144 Wedgewood Road, Medina, OH, 1894 First Methodist Episcopal Church, 60 West Main Street, Norwalk, OH, 1894 Glenwood Methodist Episcopal Church, Buffalo, NY, 1894 Pilgrim Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1894 John Grant Residence, 2203 Cornell Road, Cleveland, OH, 1895 First Congregational Church, 431 Columbus Street, Sandusky, OH, 1895 First Congregational Church, 140 South Main Street, Wellington, OH, 1895 Herman Foote Residence, 2335 East 79th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1895 Giovanni Barricelli House, Cleveland, Ohio, 1896 Factory for Taylor, Strong and Company, 8304 Madison Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 1896 Mott Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City, NY, 1896 Methodist Episcopal Church, Foochow, China, 1896 Central Methodist (United) Church, St. Thomas, Ontario, 1897 St. Paul's AME Zion Church, 2393 East 55th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1899 Niles Methodist Church, 1214 North Mechanic Street, Niles, OH, 1899 First M.E. Church, 104 West Franklin, Troy, OH, 1899 First M.E. Church, Austin, IL, 1899 Ohio Wesleyan Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1900 Charles Elson Residence, 1762 Crawford Road, Cleveland, OH, 1900 Residence for F. W. Robinson, 1733 East 60th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1900 Commercial-Residential Building, Central and Bertram, Cleveland, OH, 1900 Millburn Memorial M.E. Church, South Bend, IL, 1900 First Congregational Church, 3232 Pearl Avenue, Lorain, 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 Kinsman Street Congregational Church, 5719 Kinsman, Cleveland, OH, 1901 First M. E. Church, 1601 Charleston Avenue, Matoon, 1901 Two family residence for Harry Morganthaler, 1510-2 East 84th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1901 St. Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church, 933 West Colfax, South Bend, OH, 1901 Mark Thomson Residence, 1680 East 85th Street, Cleveland, OH, 1901 Jones Home for Friendless Children, Cleveland, Ohio, 1902 St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church, 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 Dominion Methodist Church, 687 Avenue Roslyn, Westmount, 1914 First Methodist Episcopal Church, 501 Main Street, Wellsville, Kansas, 1914 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: 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