Shupe quit the architecture business soon after that, but only briefly.
Carl White died in 1915; Herbruck and Agatisa
speculate that Shupe might have taken over White’s
commissions in Shaker in 1916, because he was
busy designing homes in town from that time until
the late 1920s. He excelled at creative uses of the
allowed styles, including Georgian, Tudor, and
English Cottage. He was notable for his hipped roofs
and for integrating the outdoors into his designs
through the use of color, materials, and large and
numerous windows – features of the Prairie style
that was popular with architects in the Midwest
when Shupe was coming up in the business. He was
nothing if not eclectic.
The City’s Landmark Commission, the Shaker
Historical Society, and the Shaker Heights Library
organized their third annual architectural walking
tour this past October around eight Shupe-designed
homes, most of them in the area carved out by
the Green-Long syndicate over 100 years ago. The
images here are from homes on that tour. SL