This process of modification of historic styles is true even of Schulte's early St. Monica Church (which served an interim Cathedral 1938-1957), W. McMillan St. and Fairview Ave, Clifton Heights, a splendid, totally-designed early medieval conception; of course, the priest in charge often had a good deal of influence on the choice of model, here said to be Sant' Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, although the overall effect is more Romanesque than Early Christian; in any case, the siting, with an asymmetrical campanile offsetting the slope, and the craftsmanship—stone-carving, including sculpture by Clement J. Barnhorn, metalwork, and woodwork—are superb. Later the Archdiocese of Cincinnati is said to have set up a workshop of ecclesiastical craftsmen and artists utilized by Schulte and others. Schulte himself met Charles Connick, the famous Boston stained-glass designer and promoter of the return to Romanesque inspiration (analogous to Cram’s influence), while working on the design for the small chapel addition to St. Ann Convent in Melbourne, Ky., which had been designed by Crowe prior to their partnership. (Schulte, p. 19).

Schulte was also responsible for enlarging and remodeling, in a slick but impressive Decoized Greek Revival Revival [sic], St. Peter-in-Chains, prior to its once again becoming a cathedral, ca. 1956. He and his partner [separate pre- and post-Crowe] designed numerous other ecclesiastical works throughout the Cincinnati area; also, The Loretto, Dayton, Oh., and St. Peter, Lexington, Ky. The role of Crowe in the firm's accomplishments has not yet been ascertained, but many of the best works attributed to Schulte were designed under their joint aegis. See also Cram and Charles Connick.

Simon was educated at M.I.T.; then toured Europe; opened architectural office in Baltimore 1894. Within the Supervising Architect’s office, rapidly rose through the ranks, to chief of the Engineering and Drafting Division in 1915. According to Lee, “Between 1915 and 1934, with [Warren A.] Wetmore at the administrative reins, Simon was responsible for ‘all phases of architectural work’ in the office.” Under his Depression-era aegis, the Supervising Architect’s office mainly designed small Colonial Revival buildings, with occasional forays into a Stripped Classical Modernism. Among the latter are the 1939 U.S. Post Office and Court House on the north side of E. Fifth St. between Main and Walnut streets, which was, like its predecessor, A.B. Mullett’s Second Empire structure on the same site, among the Supervising Architect’s last works in office (and also the superintendent of construction for both, with apparently some design credit, was S. Hannaford & Sons); and the Covington Post Office, one of the few Federal buildings whose architect was chosen by competition.

Siter came to Cincinnati in September 1884, and opened his own office in the Lincoln's Inn Court Building in November 1885, after a year in the office of Edwin Anderson (the former partner of Samuel Hannaford). He is listed as practicing here 1885-1912 (although apparently in Boston, 1899), was a regular member of the Cincinnati Chapter of the AIA (American Institute of Architects), and attempted to open an office in Lexington, Ky., with the English-born and trained Cincinnati architect W.W. Franklin in 1886. He was listed as a partner of Lucien F. Plympton in 1897.

Siter's earliest Cincinnati work is said to have been the United States [Bank] Building (completed May 1886), at Third and Walnut streets, where he had his office during the 1890s. From the beginning he seems to have had distinguished clients, especially for residences, such as Eugene Zimmerman (whose daughter Helena married the Duke of Manchester), Charles Fleischmann, General Michael Ryan, and members of the Groesbeck, Heekin, Hanna, Longworth, and possibly Seasongood families (or their estates), as well as the Shinkle family in Covington.

Siter & [Edwin] Anderson competed in the nationally important competition for the design of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building at Fourth and Vine streets (1885; won by H.H. Richardson’s own firm, with entries from Bruce Price of New York, Burnham & Root of Chicago, and Wheelwright & Everett of Boston); it is possible that Siter was brought to Cincinnati from Boston by Anderson with the imminent Chamber competition. In 1887, Siter won an informal competition to design the Pike Street townhouse of architecture patron A. Howard Hinkle (who endowed a scholarship for the AIA), against New York architect Bruce Price, W.M. Aiken, and A.O. Elzner, but contributed unsuccessfully to an 1890s competition for the First (Linton) Unitarian Universalist Church on Reading Road in Avondale won by James W. McLaughlin, and the 1895 University of Cincinnati Competition (won, as so many Cincinnati competitions were at the turn of the last century, by S. Hannaford & Sons).

Siter designed the cruciform main building (Horticultural Hall, also used as the Art Gallery) of the Cincinnati Centennial Exposition of 1888 in Washington Park, linked to Music Hall by a "Bridge of Sighs," as well as a "Log Cabin" for the Exposition. The diminutive Winton Place St. Stephen Episcopal Chapel (1886), Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church (1880s) and related Clifford Memorial Chapel (demolished by the University of Cincinnati in 2004), and the Church of the Nativity, Price Hill, demonstrate further his interest in picturesque massing.

The Third National Bank Building of Cincinnati, with its high gable, was a superb adaptation of Richardsonian conceptions to a narrow urban site (like the Hinkle house; and perhaps "everyone's favorite townhouse," an imaginative Richardsonian facade on Ninth St. opposite the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, torn down in the 1980s for parking, which in turn made way for the library‘s extension in the late 1990s). Siter also designed a pre-1891 Second National Bank Building and the Commercial Bank Building; the Farmers' National Bank in Mansfield, Oh.; the former Citizens' National Bank in Sidney, Oh.; and the German National Bank on Madison Avenue at Pike St., Covington, Ky., mentioned earlier. He designed a Richardsonian addition to the St. Nicholas Hotel, formerly at the southeast corner of Fourth and Race Sts.

For the City of Cincinnati, Siter had designed by 1894 "two [police] patrols, one [fire] engine [house], and five school houses." The last included the Columbian School in Avondale, built in several stages, and demolished in 1993 after numerous attempts to save it. Other Siter schools are (in 2008) the Walnut Hills High School, (converted to residential) Ashland and Burdett avenues, near Victory Parkway; Fairview Heights (30th District) School, (vacant) Warner St. at Stratford; and the 8th (Sherman, in the West End), 12th, 16th (Taft, Mt. Auburn), 19th (Hoffman, East Walnut Hills; perhaps an addition, all replaced by the present Hannaford & Sons Tudor Revival structure in the early 1900s), and 29th District schools; some of these have been replaced.

Siter also designed many large-scale commercial and industrial structures, such as the former Sachs Shoe Manufacturing Co., 800 Sycamore St. (ca. 1890); other shoe factories on the SE and NE corners of Ninth and Sycamore; and the Enterprise Carriage Co. plant in Miamisburg, Oh.

In 1899 Siter "relocated in Boston, where he built up a large clientele; he is listed with William F. Goodwin as Goodwin & Siter in Boston 1900-1904; several of the Cincinnati area's other most creative architects, such as James W. McLaughlin and Lucian F. Plympton, also moved East after the turn of the last century. Siter returned to Cincinnati shortly before his death.

For the Emery family the Steinkamps, including 25 years under John Bernard Steinkamp, designed and constructed numerous apartment buildings, rowhouses, and other residential properties (see J.G. Steinkamp, below, for a partial list).

For probably 50 years the Steinkamp firm designed and constructed innumerable apartment buildings for the Emery family downtown and in the inner suburbs, usually located on streetcar lines. Among these were the San Rafael (Fourth St.), Norfolk/Talbot/Waldo (NWC Elm and Eighth streets), Somerset, Cumberland, North and South Warwick, Roanoke (Ludlow Ave., Clifton), Park Side (Jefferson Ave., Clifton), Haddon Hall (Reading Rd., Avondale), Eden, Melbourne, Nelson, Seamington, Waldemar, Abbotford, and Sandheger Flats. Although some of these are handsome structures, the firm was best known for its efficiency and practicality; it also specialized in large garages and services after World War I.

The earliest apartment buildings in the city—such as the Lombardy on W. Fourth St., ca. 1880)—are believed to have been designed for the Emerys by Samuel Hannaford's firm (although there is evidence that James W. McLaughlin actually designed the first such "modern" apartment building, the Sinton, on W. Fourth St., 1876), as were other

important Emery commissions in the late 1870s and early '80s (although Henry Bevis is believed to have designed the Emery Arcade between Vine and Race streets S of Fifth, ca. 1880). Mrs. Mary J. Emery seems to have remained loyal to the Hannafords for the design of her own residence, "Edgecliff" in (East) Walnut Hills, and perhaps even for later additions. With the collapse of one wall of the Palace (now Cincinnatian) Hotel during construction, however, the Emerys are said to have abandoned the Hannafords and adopted the Steinkamps as architects as well as builders.

William Stewart was a charter member of the Cincinnati Chapter of the AIA in 1870. He, and Walter & Stewart, seem to have been extraordinarily prolific. An 1887 list of major works in the Cincinnati area, including Covington, was recently discovered; it includes major churches for several denominations on both sides of the Ohio River, public schools, theaters and opera houses, commercial buildings, as well as buildings for the Brown Co. (Ohio) Ursuline Convent and the Ohio State Asylum for Imbecile Youths in Columbus. Some of these commissions no doubt reflect Walter's connections, through his father Henry Walter and his own work on the Ohio State House and St. Peter-in-Chains Cathedral in Cincinnati; but it seems likely that Stewart was the main designer; most of the identified works share a bold treatment of Gothic massing and details. Also the Holly Water Works System and the former Amos Shinkle "Castle" on E. Second St. in Covington.

Perhaps the "Temple of Love" in Mt. Storm Park, often attributed to Strauch, was compiled of columns from the former R.B. Bowler house (enlarged by I. Rogers), as according to "Conteur"; see Cincinnati Historical Society.

See also The Western Horticultural Review, published in Cincinnati in the early 1850s; and the Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine, published by Dr. John Aston Warder; the latter periodical includes the W.B. Smith (later John W. Ellis, Obed J. Wilson, and Allen R. Joslin) House designed by Isaiah Rogers, with picturesque landscaping by Strauch effectively illustrated in lithographs.