August C. Esenwein (11/7/1856-6/29/1926) Buffalo New York (F.A.I.A.)

For a number of years associated in practice with James Addison Johnson under the firm name of Esenwein & Johnson, and identified with the planning and erection of a number of noted public buildings in Buffalo.

Of German birth and education, Esenwein studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Stuttgart, later worked as draftsman in Paris for a number of years. He migrated to the U.S. in about 1880, and settled in Buffalo, and began his career there in the employ of a local architect. During the competition for the Music Hall, the young man submitted a design which won a prize, and the structure was later built under his supervision. After practicing under his own name for a time he formed a partnership with Mr. Johnson and continued that association until the time of his decease. Well known professionally, Esenwein had been a member of the Buffalo Chapter since 1910, and in 1916 was elected a Fellow of the Institute.

Among the number of early buildings in Buffalo which he designed independently were the Public Library, the old Iroquois Hotel and the Statler Hotel, and later the Museum of Natural Science. Under the firm name he was co-architect of the Gluck Office Building,General Electric Building, Lafayette High School, Touraine Hotel, also various buildings in Buffalo.