Guy Tilden

Guy Tilden (May 11, 1858 – August, 6, 1929)[1] was a Canton, Ohio, United States Architect during the late 19th and early 20th century. Several of his structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Guy Tilden
Born(1858-05-11)May 11, 1858
Youngstown, Ohio
DiedAugust 6, 1929(1929-08-06) (aged 71)
Canton, Ohio
Resting placeWest Lawn Cemetery
OccupationArchitect
Lions Lincoln Theater, Massillon, Ohio

Guy Tilden was born in Youngstown, Ohio on May 11, 1858.[2] He married Belle La Grande Sanford on November 21, 1880[2] and moved to Alliance, and then to Canton in 1883.[3] He and his wife had four children.[2] Over the next decades, until the mid-1920s, he was Canton's premier architect.[4] In 1889 he was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.[5] Guy Tilden died August, 1929.[6] He was buried at West Lawn Cemetery[1] A listing of some of the structures he designed follows

Structures

National Register of Historic Places

Tilden designed numerous structures in Canton, Ohio, which were reviewed in a study that nominated many of them for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.[7]

Canton Public Library

All located in Canton

Others
Dueber-Hampden Watch Factory, Drawn by Henry Howe
  • Congress Lake Clubhouse - Lake Township [16]
  • Lions Lincoln Theater - Massillon [17]
  • Seventh Street Bridge (since replaced) - Canton[18]
  • Dueber-Hampden Watch Factory - Canton[6]
  • Seneca Street School - Alliance[19]
  • Hotel McKinley - Canton[20]
  • Dime Savings Bank - Canton[21]
  • F.E. Case Building - Canton[22]
  • William E. Sherlock Residence - Canton[23]
  • A.M. Dueber Residence - Canton[24]
  • Harry Harper Ink Residence - Canton[25]
  • Northeast and Southwest YMCA - Canton[26]

Notes
  1. "Ohio Death Records - Guy Tilden". Familysearch.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  2. Barbour, Fannie Cooley Williams (1910). Spelman Genealogy: The English ancestry and American descendants of Richard Spelman of Middletown, Connecticut 1700. Frank Allaben Genealogical Company. p. 459. guy tilden.
  3. Johannsen, p. 126.
  4. Johannsen, p. 124.
  5. AIACoF
  6. Johannsen, p. 141.
  7. Ruth Whitticar; Amy Shriver; Jeff Brown (July 1986). "Guy Tilden Thematic Resources/ Architecture of Guy Tilden in Canton 1885-19O5".
  8. Bender's Restaurant-Belmont Buffet, Ohio Historical Society, 2007
  9. Canton Public Library, Ohio Historical Society, 2007
  10. Case Mansion, Ohio Historical Society, 2007
  11. Fife, Harry E., House, Ohio Historical Society, 2007
  12. Harvard Company--Weber Dental Manufacturing Company, Ohio Historical Society, 2007
  13. Hotel Courtland, Ohio Historical Society, 2007
  14. Martin, Brooke and Anna E. House, Ohio Historical Society, 2007
  15. Trinity Lutheran Church, Ohio Historical Society, 2007
  16. The Heritage of Congress Lake Club 2006
  17. Lincoln Theater Archived 2012-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
  18. Historic Bridges of the United States
  19. Johannsen, p. 127.
  20. Johannsen, p. 129.
  21. Johannsen, p. 135.
  22. Johannsen, p. 136.
  23. Johannsen, p. 137.
  24. Johannsen, p. 138.
  25. Johannsen, p. 139.
  26. Johannsen, p. 140.

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