Prior to Partnership

August Esenwein (1856-1926)

• Buffalo Music Hall 1882-1963
• German-American Brewery & Hall 1893- 1895
• Alfred Schoellkopf residence 1895-1896

James A. Johnson (1865-1939)

• Marling & Johnson
  • Harlow Curtis residence 1894
  • Dr. Bernard Bartow residence 1894
• Boughton & Johnson
• Colonial Apartment House 1895-1896

Esenwein & Johnson Partnership 1897-1942

American Renaissance

• Temple of Music (1899-1900)
• Service Building (1899-1900)
• Lafayette High School (1900-1903)
• Hotel Touraine (Gothic High Rise) (1901-1902)
• Mayer & Weill Buidling (1898-1899)
• Providence Retreat (1905-1908)

Residential Expressions I: Stylistic Medley

• Harlow Curtis Residence (1898)
• Louis Kurtzman Residence (1907-1909)
• House for Charles Mosier
• Charles Mosier Residence 1905
• Edward Webster Residence (1902-1904)
• Myron Farmer Residence (1903-1904)

Art Nouveau Masterpiece

• Hotel Statler (1905-1906)

Statler’s Little Sisters (Art Nouveau)

• Ansonia Building (1905-1906)
• Calumet Building (1906-1907)

Residential Expressions II: Arts & Crafts for Living

• Automobile Club of Buffalo (1910-1911)
• Ellsworth Statler Residence (1909-1911)
• John Sinclair Bungalow (1917)
• Edward Webster (1907-1908)
• John Sinclair Residence (1909-1910)

Factory Aesthetic

• Buffalo Orphan Asylum (1908-1911)/McKinley Vocational School

The White City

• J.N. Adam & Co. (1911-1912)
• Masten Park High School (1912-1913)
• Root Building (1912)
• Buffalo General Electric Building (1911-1912)

 Epilogue

• Niagara Hotel 1923-1925
• United Office Building 1928-1929 (Art Deco)
• Sinclair, Rooney & Co. Building 1909-1910

Art Nouveau in Buffalo

• Standard Paint Company Building (1900)
• Birge Wallpaper
• Charles Rohlfs

American Art Pottery

• Hampshire
• Buffalo Pottery
• Roycroft
• Walrath
• Grueby
• Teco
• Rookwood
• Roseville

Esenwein & Johnson Exhibit Credits: Research and script by Martin Wachadlo, architectural historian; Library materials, Patricia Virgil, Archivist; Artifacts, Walter Mayer, Registrar of Collections; Exhibit Design, Behroo Khodadad, Exhibits; virtual exhibit, Susan Eck.

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