Hezekiah Eldredge, Architect-Builder of St. John's Church, Cleveland, Ohio

ON A small leather trunk recently found in a Cleveland attic is a brass nameplate inscribed "H. Eldredge, Ohio City." Inside the trunk were the account books and the architectural drawings1 and personal papers of Hezekiah Eldredge who came to Cleveland from Rochester in 1834. From this material came the answer to the long-puzzling question of who was the architect and builder of St. John's historic Episcopal Church, the oldest church now standing in greater Cleveland (Fig. I). The accounts in the trunk covered most of the active