{{Short description|Architect from Ohio}} [[File:Tennessee Club.jpg|thumb|The Tennessee Club–Overall Goodbar Building in Memphis, Tennessee]] '''Elah Terrell''' (1851{{ndash}}1920) was an American architect from Columbus, Ohio. Terrell designed important buildings under the company Elah T. Terrell & Co. in Ohio, notably in Sheffield, Lorain County, and Columbus.<ref name="life"/> Terrell was a member of the Ohio chapter of the American Institute of Architects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/inlandarchi2018921893chic|title=The Inland architect and news record|date=June 15, 1887|publisher=Chicago : Inland Pub. Co.|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
Terrell's office was in the Merchants and Manufacturers' National Bank building in Downtown Columbus, a building he designed.<ref>[https://infoweb-newsbank-com.webproxy3.columbuslibrary.org/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&t=favorite%3ACOLUMBUS%21Columbus%2520Dispatch%2520Historical%2520and%2520Current&sort=_rank_%3AD&fld-base-0=alltext&maxresults=20&val-base-0=%22Board%20of%20Trade%20Building%22&docref=image/v2%3A1467499E363272B3%40EANX-NB-16264EEC40A03FCB%402440479-1626299DB909A356%40221-1626299DB909A356%40Z Columbus Metropolitan Library] {{dead link|date=January 2024}}</ref>
Around 1888, Elah Terrell designed numerous structures in the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Several remain, including Power Hall, later known as Antiques and Collectibles, and an information booth or kiosk southeast of the Administration Building.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/buildingohiotrav00ware/page/202/mode/2up | isbn=9781882203741 | title=Building Ohio : A traveler's guide to Ohio's urban architecture | year=2001 | last1=Ware | first1=Jane | publisher=Orange Frazer Press }}</ref>
==Life== thumb|Terrell's house at 749 Dennison Avenue, c.{{nbsp}}1889 Terrell was born in 1851, one of seven children of Jay and Etna Terrell.<ref name="life">{{cite web|url=https://virteomdevcdn.blob.core.windows.net/site-sheffieldvillage-2-com/uploaded_media/sheffieldvillage_com/historical-publications/Bicentennial-History-Sheffield-Village-08-Progress-pt1__1571413620.pdf|title=Chapter 6. Sheffield Progresses|website=virteomdevcdn|access-date=27 January 2024}}</ref>
Terrell married Isabel Gay, of Elyria, on January 2, 1884.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103093234/ "Married: Terrell-Gay"], Elyria Republican, January 10, 1884, page 5.</ref> They lived at a house in present-day Victorian Village in Columbus, Ohio. The house stood from 1888 to 1947, for most of its time beside the Peter Sells house facing Goodale Park.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://allcolumbusdata.com/the-short-north-historic-buildings/|title=Short North Historic Buildings|work=All Columbus Data |date=26 May 2019 }}</ref> Terrell died on February 16, 1920.
==Notable works== <!--thumb|Sheffield Village Hall in Ohio--> * East Broad Street Presbyterian Church (Columbus, Ohio)<ref name="designs"/> * Norwich Hotel (Columbus, Ohio)<ref name="designs">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bm1yCwAAQBAJ&dq=elah+terrell&pg=PA157|isbn = 9781625854230|title = Historic Hotels of Columbus, Ohio|date = 7 September 2015|publisher = Arcadia}}</ref> * Merchants and Manufacturers' National Bank or National Bank of Commerce (Columbus, Ohio)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/18145/|title=092M5541919}}</ref> * Columbus Board of Trade Building (Columbus, Ohio)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisweeknews.com/article/20131202/NEWS/312029671|title=Board of Trade took awhile to take root|website=ThisWeek Community News}}</ref><ref name="designs"/> * Clinton DeWeese Firestone mansion (Columbus, Ohio)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/ohio/id/11373/|title=579F523|website=digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org}}</ref> * Tennessee Club–Overall Goodbar Building (Memphis, Tennessee)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TN-01-157-0081|title=Tennessee Club|date=July 17, 2018|website=SAH ARCHIPEDIA |author1=Pls4e }}</ref> * Olde Towne Hall Theater (Ridgeville, Ohio)<ref name="Ridgeville">{{Cite web|url=https://www.heritageohio.org/north-ridgeville/|title=North Ridgeville|website=Heritage Ohio}}</ref> * Elyria High School (Elyria, Ohio)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YfvhVln0D20C&dq=%22elah+terrell%22+biography&pg=PA878|isbn = 9781878592705|title = Ohio Historic Places Dictionary|date = December 2008|publisher = North American Book Dist LLC}}</ref> * Schools in Johnstown and Groveport, Ohio<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nfkMAQAAIAAJ&dq=elah+terrell&pg=PA428|title=Annual Report of the State Commissioner of Common Schools, to the Governor of the State of Ohio, for the Year|year=1887|publisher=Statesman Steam Press}}</ref> * William Day House (Sheffield, Ohio)<ref name="life"/> * Sheffield Village Hall (Sheffield, Ohio)<ref name="life"/>
==See also== * Architecture of Columbus, Ohio
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