Previously Unknown Cluss Buildings Found
In the past year, researchers have discovered ten buildings designed by Adolf Cluss that were not previously known. One of the ten is still standing. A total of 89 buildings designed by Cluss, often working with partners, have now been identified.Discovered in June 2010, the Metropolitan Hook and Ladder Company’s Fire Engine House (108) is one of eleven buildings that Cluss designed that still stands, and the very first one of his buildings to be completed (dedicated in February 1864).
Newspaper articles about eight previously unknown buildings have been discovered by John Richardson, who is working on a biography of Alexander R. Shepherd. Three of the buildings were commercial or combination commercial and residential establishments in Southwest Washington: the Joseph P. Herman Store and Residence (96), the Samuel Herman Stores and Residences (97), and the Wolford and Shilberg Store (98). Both Joseph and Samuel Herman emigrated about 1855 from Hesse-Darmstadt.
For the United States Coast Survey (99) Cluss planned four brick buildings on Capitol Hill between New Jersey Avenue and South Capitol Street SE in 1870-71. John Cloud of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration found copies of Cluss’s drawings of the Coast Survey complex in the NOAA Library.
In 1872, the Board of Public Works ordered Cluss to design a Smallpox Hospital (100) at 1900 Massachusetts Avenue SE.
Richardson also discovered evidence of three residential buildings: The William F. Mattingly and Michael W. Beveridge Residences (101), a duplex at 1616 and 1618 H Street NW; the John K. Wills Residences (102), a duplex at 1013 and 1015 Fourteenth Street NW, and the General Noah L. Jeffries Residence (103), 1505 K Street NW.
The Ladies Relief Society of St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church commissioned Cluss to design a residence for women "of reduced circumstance." The St. Aloysius Church Industrial Home for Women (104) stood at the northeast corner of K and North Capitol Streets NE.
In 1864, the City of Washington commissioned Cluss and Kammerhueber to design a two-story market building at Center Market (109), a brick structure facing Pennsylvania Avenue that would provide a link between two frame buildings that faced 7th and 9th streets.
All of the newly-discovered buildings were designed in the 1860s and early 1870s.
Heilbronn-DVD now also available for american DVD-players
The Heilbronn City Archives have published an entertaining history film about Heilbronn on DVD. Numerous unknown or forgotten filmtreasures have been enhanced and invite to a pleasant trip through time and Heilbronn's past. This journey begins with the oldest films, which were created over 80 years ago, and ends in the 1970s.The DVD is available in four languages (German, English, French and Turkish) for European PAL-system DVD-players, and now actually also for American or Canadian NTSC-system DVD-players.
For a film trailer and more information see
News about Franklin School
After the re-opening of Esatern Market another Cluss building comes to the focus of the public in Washington, D.C.: There are new plans for the future of Franklin School.
Newsletter
The Cluss Exhibition electronic newsletter keeps you informed about the progress of planning for the exhibition.
Link: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/pro/vtour/dc1/clussnewsletter.htm
Cluss lives on ...
An exhibition in the WineVilla presents parts of the history of the Cluss familiy in Heilbronn and four family members: Heinrich Cluss, his daughter Henriette and her brothers August and Adolf.
