Levi Tucker Scofield (born 1842 died 1917) was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio

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 architect and a native of the city. He served in the U.S. Civil war and designed many public buildings and several monuments during his career. He was a third generation Cleveland resident and the Scofield Building, which he designed, is named after him. His Cleveland home is also still in existence.

He had two sons, William Marshall Scofield (1868–1942) and Sherman Wright Scofield (1876–1942) who became members of his architectural firm. The Scofields were members of First Baptist Church and were buried in Lake View Cemetery.

Projects

• Scofield Building (Euclid Ninth Tower) (1902) 2000-2034 East 9th Street
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument) (1894), at 1999 Ontario Street. Scofield worked on the monument for seven and a half years without compensation and contributed over $57,000 to its cost.
• Assylum for the Insane, Athens, Ohio
• Assylum for the Insane, Columbus, Ohio
• North Carolina Penitentiary
• Ohio Penitentiary
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  , Mansfield, Ohio
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• Cleveland House of Corrections
• "These are my Jewels" Civil War Monument installed at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and then moved to the grounds of the Ohio State Capitol
• Schofield Vault, Lakeview Cemetery, Scofield is believed to be the architect.

His firm designed five Cleveland Public Schools between 1869 and 1883. He was the first Cleveland architect taken into membership in the American Institute of Architects and was a friend and golfing partner of John D. Rockefeller.

Sources

• A history of Cleveland and its environs: the heart of new Connecticut, Volume 2 By Elroy McKendree pages 391-394
• History of the Western Reserve, Volume 3 By Harriet Taylor Upton, Harry Gardner Cutler
• Levi Tucker Scofield Cleveland City Planning Commission
• Scofield, Levi T. North Carolina Architect & Builders