SITER, Henry E. (1851-1913), a talented architect active in Cincinnati, Ohio where he designed several commercial, educational and residential buildings in a distinctive Richardsonian Romanesque style. In Canada, only one project by Siter has been located. This was commissioned by the Hall Estate at STRATHROY, ONT. in 1889, who asked Siter to prepare designs for two 3-storey double houses located on Bates Avenue in that town (Engineering & Building Record [New York], xx, 5 Oct. 1899, 266).
Born in Philadelphia, Penn. In May 1851, Siter was educated in Newport, R.I. and trained in Boston with Clarence S. Luce, with Gridley J.F. Bryant, and later worked as a draftsman for Samuel J.F. Thayer. Siter moved to Ohio in 1884 and opened his own office in Cincinnati during the following year. His major works there include St. Stephen Episcopal Chapel (1886), Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church (c. 1887), and Horticultural Hall at the Cincinnati Centennial Exposition (1888). In 1899 Siter closed his Cincinnati office and moved to Boston to continue his career. There, he was in partnership with William F. Goodwin, as Goodwin & Siter, Architects (William T. Comstock, The Architects Directory, 1904-05, 45), but their collaboration was apparently a brief one, and by 1907 he had formed another partnership in Boston with Edward F. Tinell, as Siter & Tinell (William T. Comstock, The Architects Directory, 1907, 54). Siter later returned to Cincinnati and died there on 3 January 1913 (obit. Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Jan. 1913, 8). A biography on H.E. Siter, prepared by Prof. Walter Langsam, was published in 2008 as part of the online resource called The Biographical Dictionary of Cincinnati Architects 1877-1940 (now online).