Guy Tilden Explained

Guy Tilden
Birth Date:	11 May 1858
Birth Place:	Youngstown, Ohio
Death Place:	Canton, Ohio
Restingplace:	West Lawn Cemetery
Occupation:	Architect

thumb|350px|Lions Lincoln Theater, Massillon, Ohio 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 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. He and his wife had four children.^[2] Over the next decades, until the mid-1920s, he was Canton's premier architect. In 1889 he was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.^[3] Guy Tilden died August, 1929. 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.^[4]

right|thumb|350px|Canton Public LibraryAll located in Canton

• Bender's Restaurant-Belmont Buffet^[5]
• Canton Public Library^[6]
• Case Mansion^[7]
• Harry E. Fife House^[8]
• Harvard Company-Weber Dental Manufacturing Company^[9]
• Hotel Courtland^[10]
• Brooke and Anna E. Martin House^[11]
• Trinity Lutheran Church^[12]

Others

• Congress Lake Clubhouse - Lake Township^[13]
• Lions Lincoln Theater - Massillon^[14]
• Seventh Street Bridge (since replaced) - Canton^[15]
• Dueber-Hampden Watch Factory - Canton
• Seneca Street School - Alliance
• Hotel McKinley - Canton
• Dime Savings Bank - Canton
• F.E. Case Building - Canton
• William E. Sherlock Residence - Canton
• A.M. Dueber Residence - Canton
• Harry Harper Ink Residence - Canton
• Northeast and Southwest YMCA - Canton

References

• Johannsen . Eric . https://resources.ohiohistory.org/ohj/browse/displaypages.php?display[=0082&display[]=124&display[]=141 The Architectural Legacy of Guy Tilden of Canton ]. . 82 . 124–141 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ohio Death Records - Guy Tilden . Familysearch.com. 2015-12-31.
2. Book: Barbour, Fannie Cooley Williams . Spelman Genealogy: The English ancestry and American descendants of Richard Spelman of Middletown, Connecticut 1700 . 1910 . Frank Allaben Genealogical Company . 459 . guy tilden. .
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=qvRPAAAAMAAJ&q=guy+tilden AIACoF
4. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=64000606}} Guy Tilden Thematic Resources/ Architecture of Guy Tilden in Canton 1885-19O5 ]. July 1986. Ruth Whitticar . Amy Shriver . Jeff Brown .
5. , Ohio Historical Society, 2007
6. , Ohio Historical Society, 2007
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8. , Ohio Historical Society, 2007
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12. , Ohio Historical Society, 2007
13. https://congresslakeclub.memberstatements.com/Clubs/CongressLakeClub/Uploaded/FacilityPics/The%20Heritage%20%20Chron%20of%20CLC%20for%20website%20040109.pdf The Heritage of Congress Lake Club
14. http://www.lionslincolntheatre.com/pages.php?pageid=24 Lincoln Theater
15. http://bridgehunter.com/oh/stark/7661274/ Historic Bridges of the United States