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'''Daniel Albert Reamer''' (born [[1871]] in Oberlin, Ohio; died [[1927]]) was an architect who worked intermittently in [[Birmingham]] between [[1901]] and his death.

Reamer was the son of Oberlin merchant [[Chambers Reamer]] and his wife, the former Frances F. Cole, who married on May 5, 1868. They moved from Ohio to [[Birmingham]] in [[1886]], and also had a residence in [[Fort Payne]]. Daniel returned to his home town to attend classes at Oberlin College in the early 1890s. He moved to Chicago, Illinois in [[1892]] and worked for his uncle, Daniel P. Reamer, at the A. H. Andrews & Co. furniture store. In [[1900]] he helped organize a "T-Square Club" in Atlanta, Georgia.

By [[1901]] he was operating an architectural practice in Birmingham. He relocated his practice to Chattanooga, Tennesseee in June [[1906]] and assisted his father in the development of the "Reamer Place" residential neighborhood in Oberlin in [[1908]]. Around [[1909]] he began practicing in Cleveland, Ohio, with his younger brother, Robert (best known as the designer of the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone National Park in [[1904]].)

In [[1924]] Reamer returned south and resumed working in Birmingham and Chattanooga. He died in [[1927]].

==Notable works==
===In Birmingham===
* [[Stephen Thompson residence]], 2848 [[Highland Avenue]], 1910
===Elsewhere===
* McCallie School dormitory, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1907
* County high school, Soddy, Tennessee, 1907
* Houses for "Reamer Place", Oberlin, Ohio, 1908
** Jonathan Andrus residence, 251 Forest
** Charles Rogers residence, 378 Reamer
* 7 cottages, Chattanooga for Dixie Portland Cement Co., Copenhagen, Tennessee, 1909
* St James Methodist Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1909
* R. D. Gilbert residence, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1909
* E. Waterhouse residence, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1909
* Louis Myers residence (Shaker Historical Museum), Shaker Heights, Ohio, 1910
* 6-story hotel on site of Mahala Building, Sandusky, Ohio, 1911
* Residence in Elyria, Ohio, 1912
* 7-story apartment building on W. 14th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, 1913
* Hollow tile exhibit, Complete Building Show, Cleveland, Ohio, 1916
* 7-story apartment building on Euclid Avenue for L. Abrams Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1922
* Thomas W. Graham residence, Oberlin, Ohio, 1923

==References==
* "[http://www.shakerhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2006-Fall.pdf Question: Who is the architect of the Shaker Historical Museum?]" (Fall 2006) ''The Journal: Shaker Historical Society''

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