Charles Eugene Morris established the company in Columbus.
Columbus ironwork - structural steel - five generations
The C. E. Morris Company
A rebuilt archive for the works, people, addresses, photographs, source records, and project geography behind a Columbus steel company founded in 1885.
Bridges, public buildings, schools, theaters, airports, banks, factories, and industrial plants.
Summit Station, Ohio 43073. The structural-steel facility was purchased by Ohio Steel Industries in 1986.
Fifth-generation president and steward of the company archive.
The works
A steel shop with a city around it.
The Curtis Avenue plant pulled shop floor, office, rail access, iron storage, and paint work into one industrial system.
- Plant
- Morris Iron Works
- Location
- North side of Curtis Avenue, east of Jefferson Avenue
- Era
- 1920s-1950s
- Work
- Structural steel fabrication, ornamental iron, machine work, and shop finishing.
Company locations
North Third. Curtis Avenue. Summit Station.
The company geography follows Columbus industry from downtown ironwork to a rail-served plant and later structural-steel works.
N. Third at Locust
Early C. E. Morris and Co. iron, machine-shop, and woodworking functions.
N. Third at Naghten
Architectural Iron Works near the railroad depots.
Curtis Avenue
Shop, office, storage, and rail service for steel structural work.
Summit Station
9500 E. Broad Street, Summit Station, Ohio 43073.
Ohio Steel
Ohio Steel Industries purchased the Summit Station structural-steel facility.
Project atlas
Projects across the map.
An Ohio-first street atlas plots documented C. E. Morris Company work and Terrell & Morris commissions. Every project opens its story, real image record when available, and locally preserved sources.
Open the mapColumbus shop record
Curtis Avenue, downtown shops, rail access, and the company geography behind the archive.
Port Columbus Terminal
Fabricated the structural steel for the original airport terminal building.
Hoover Reservoir Bridge
Structural-steel fabricator for the dam-top highway bridge on Sunbury Road.
Five generations
The family line.
Charles Eugene Morris. Willard Bernard Morris. Willard Frank Morris. John Henderson Morris. Samuel Louis Morris.
Charles Eugene Morris
Founder, architect, ironmaster, bank director, inventor, and part of Columbus civic life. Open his expanding biography for the house, businesses, family, development, and public work.
Samuel Louis Morris
Current president and steward of the company archive as it is brought online.
The company archive
Photographs. Blueprints. Contracts. Letters.
This site is being built around the material the family kept: project records, drawings, shop photographs, maps, ledgers, newspaper clippings, and biographies.