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Collection: The Haysmar Estate Collection

Meade & Hamilton | Cleveland’s Golden Age of Craftsmanship

The Haysmar Estate emerged during one of Cleveland’s most remarkable periods of growth — a time when architects, artisans, millworkers, and skilled tradespeople came together to create homes with an extraordinary level of craftsmanship, and character.

Commissioned by Kaufman Hays and completed in 1913, the Haysmar compound was designed by the distinguished architectural firm Meade & Hamilton during what historians often describe as the golden age of the American suburban estate.

Frank B. Meade was not simply another architect designing large homes for wealthy Cleveland families. He trained during a transformative period in American architecture, studying in Boston before working in the Chicago office of William LeBaron Jenney — the pioneering architect widely regarded as the father of the modern skyscraper. Meade later worked under prominent Cleveland architect Abram Garfield before forming the influential Meade & Hamilton partnership in 1911.

Their work reflected an era when homes were built slowly, intentionally, and with extraordinary attention to detail. The residences designed by Meade & Hamilton throughout Bratenahl and along Lake Shore Boulevard embodied a philosophy of permanence — layered compositions of proportion, craftsmanship, imported materials, regional millwork, and artisan construction techniques rarely seen today.

The woodwork inside homes of this caliber was often produced by specialized regional mill shops working with old-growth hardwoods harvested decades — sometimes centuries — before construction. Trim profiles were custom milled specifically for the home rather than ordered from catalogs. Cabinetry was assembled by joiners and finish carpenters using furniture-making techniques. Plaster walls were hand-applied over wood lath. Doors were solid, weighty, and built to endure generations of use.

 

The result was architecture you could feel.

A staircase worn smooth by generations.
Quarter-sawn oak glowing beneath old shellac.
Hand-shaped molding profiles catching light differently throughout the day.
Hardware with the weight and precision of industrial-era metallurgy.
Lead glass and millwork assembled long before modern engineered materials replaced labor-intensive craftsmanship.

Though the names of the individual carpenters, plasterers, cabinetmakers, and millworkers who physically built the Haysmar homes remain largely undocumented — as was common at the time — their work survives as a living signature embedded throughout the structure itself.

Every molding profile.
Every mortise-and-tenon joint.
Every layer of craftsmanship still visible beneath a century of use.

Today, one home from this historic compound has reached the end of its structural life as a standing residence. Rather than allowing these materials to disappear into a landfill, RBX is carefully preserving and releasing architectural elements from the estate piece by piece — doors, hardware, lighting, cabinetry, millwork, fixtures, flooring, and countless details impossible to authentically recreate today.

This is not reproduction architecture.
This is not manufactured “vintage.”

This is original Cleveland craftsmanship from one of the region’s most important architectural eras — an opportunity to carry authentic history into future homes, businesses, restorations, and creative spaces.

Where others see demolition, we see stewardship.
Where others see debris, we see enduring craftsmanship waiting for its next chapter

 


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Arts & Crafts Solid Wood Built-In Bookcase Cabinet

Meade & Hamilton Home

Arts & Crafts Solid Wood Built-In Bookcase Cabinet

Regular price $725.00
Sale price $725.00 Regular price $725.00
1913 Solid Wood Music Room Window Assembly

Meade & Hamilton Home

1913 Solid Wood Music Room Window Assembly

Regular price $695.00
Sale price $695.00 Regular price $695.00
#62 Vintage Built-In Painted Wardrobe Cabinet Set

Meade & Hamilton Home

#62 Vintage Built-In Painted Wardrobe Cabinet Set

Regular price $625.00
Sale price $625.00 Regular price $625.00
1913 Leaded Glass Wood Window Assembly – Study North Elevation

Meade & Hamilton Home

1913 Leaded Glass Wood Window Assembly – Study North Elevation

Regular price $625.00
Sale price $625.00 Regular price $625.00
**1913 Hand-Forged Cattail Motif Security Door / Garden Gate**<br>

Meade & Hamilton Home

**1913 Hand-Forged Cattail Motif Security Door / Garden Gate**

Regular price $525.00
Sale price $525.00 Regular price $525.00
Arts & Crafts Wrought Iron Fireplace Screen Doors

Meade & Hamilton Home

Arts & Crafts Wrought Iron Fireplace Screen Doors

Regular price $525.00
Sale price $525.00 Regular price $525.00
Pair of 1913 Arched Divided Lite Foyer Windows

Meade & Hamilton Home

Pair of 1913 Arched Divided Lite Foyer Windows

Regular price $525.00
Sale price $525.00 Regular price $525.00
#52 Vintage Built-In Wardrobe Cabinet Wall – Painted Wood Closet Storage<br>

Meade & Hamilton Home

#52 Vintage Built-In Wardrobe Cabinet Wall – Painted Wood Closet Storage

Regular price $500.00
Sale price $500.00 Regular price $500.00
#51 Vintage Built-In Pantry Cabinet Wall – Painted Wood Storage Unit

Meade & Hamilton Home

#51 Vintage Built-In Pantry Cabinet Wall – Painted Wood Storage Unit

Regular price $500.00
Sale price $500.00 Regular price $500.00
#48 Vintage Arched Oak Leaded Glass Window Unit

Meade & Hamilton Home

#48 Vintage Arched Oak Leaded Glass Window Unit

Regular price $475.00
Sale price $475.00 Regular price $475.00
Arts & Crafts Iron Fireplace Screen Doors

Meade & Hamilton Home

Arts & Crafts Iron Fireplace Screen Doors

Regular price $475.00
Sale price $475.00 Regular price $475.00
#59 Vintage Wrought Iron Fireplace Screen & Surround

Meade & Hamilton Home

#59 Vintage Wrought Iron Fireplace Screen & Surround

Regular price $450.00
Sale price $450.00 Regular price $450.00
#55 Vintage Leaded Casement Window Set with Original Hardware

Meade & Hamilton Home

#55 Vintage Leaded Casement Window Set with Original Hardware

Regular price $450.00
Sale price $450.00 Regular price $450.00
#57 Leaded Casement Window Set with Lake View

Meade & Hamilton Home

#57 Leaded Casement Window Set with Lake View

Regular price $425.00
Sale price $425.00 Regular price $425.00
Pair of Geometric Leaded Glass Cabinet Windows

Meade & Hamilton Home

Pair of Geometric Leaded Glass Cabinet Windows

Regular price $425.00
Sale price $425.00 Regular price $425.00
#69 Vintage Hollywood Regency Double Arm Wall Sconce Pair

Meade & Hamilton Home

#69 Vintage Hollywood Regency Double Arm Wall Sconce Pair

Regular price $385.00
Sale price $385.00 Regular price $385.00
#80 Antique Porcelain Pedestal Sink – 30"

Meade & Hamilton Home

#80 Antique Porcelain Pedestal Sink – 30"

Regular price $375.00
Sale price $375.00 Regular price $375.00
#36 Arts & Crafts Interior 2 Panel Door with Surround & Hook

Meade & Hamilton Home

#36 Arts & Crafts Interior 2 Panel Door with Surround & Hook

Regular price $375.00
Sale price $375.00 Regular price $375.00
#33 Antique Oak Built-In Service Door Unit

Meade & Hamilton Home

#33 Antique Oak Built-In Service Door Unit

Regular price $375.00
Sale price $375.00 Regular price $375.00
#30 Antique Quarter-Sawn Oak Interior Door with Casing

Meade & Hamilton Home

#30 Antique Quarter-Sawn Oak Interior Door with Casing

Regular price $375.00
Sale price $375.00 Regular price $375.00