Oliver Marble

Oliver W. Marble was an architect who practiced in Birmingham with his son in the 1880s. Their offices were located at 1915½ 2nd Avenue North in the Steele-Smith Dry Goods Company.

Marble worked as a superintendent for Elijah Myers during construction of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, begun in 1872 and completed in 1878.

Marble's design for the Thomas Wright Dry Goods Store on the southwest corner of 19th Street and 3rd Avenue North was published in the March 15, 1884 issue of American Architect and Building News.

By 1889, Marble was practicing in partnership with Horatio Wilson in Chicago, Illinois, where he trained Benjamin Marshall. He is credited with designing the First United Methodist Church of Galena, Iowa in 1857, the First Congregational Church in Marblehead, Ohio and the Crawford County (Indiana) Courthouse of 1895, the American Crayon Company factory in Sandusky, Ohio of 1901 and the White House Hotel in Cedar Point, Ohio that same year.