Henry W. Cleaveland

Henry William Cleaveland (1827 – May 29, 1919) was an American architect based in New York, New York, and then San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon. He was one of the founding members of the American Institute of Architects, and several of his works have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His works include Ralston Hall, a National Historic Landmark in the San Francisco Bay Area, the original Palace Hotel in San Francisco, and the Bidwell Mansion in Chico, California.

Cleaveland was born in 1827 in Massachusetts. His father was an academic at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. In the 1840s, Cleaveland moved to New York City to study architecture. In the 1850s, he was a practicing architect in New York in partnership with brothers Wiliam and Samuel Backus.

Cleaveland is said to have been a "disciple" of Andrew Jackson Downing, who published highly influential architectural patternbooks. With his partners, the Backus brothers, Cleaveland co-authored a patternbook of his own, Village and Farm Cottages, which was published in 1856 and, as of 1990, had last been reprinted in 1869. It is now available on-line. Cleaveland's book, and another by Gervase Wheeler, were credited with having "flashed the Stick look far and wide" and having "inspired local builders to erect Stick houses, or incorporate their details, on a truly national scale for the first time, from the established Northeast to the burgeoning cities of the West like San Francisco."

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