Background
Kleemann was born in Ostrowo, Province of Posen, Prussia, on March 13, 1855.
Kleemann was born in Ostrowo, Province of Posen, Prussia, on March 13, 1855.
He attended a technical school at Holzminden and college in Ostrowo, completing his schooling at sixteen.
He moved to the United States. in September 1871, making his way to San Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He was "unacquainted with the language and customs of the American people and at first it was difficult to get steady work, but later was employed by several architects and spent nine years in California."
He moved to Portland in September 1880 and became a draftsman at Clark & Upton for several months before joining Justus F. Krumbein, where he worked for another several months. He worked with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company for thirteen months on "their shops at Albina, and later he embarked in business on his own account" in 1882.
He designed the original monastery in Mountain.
Angel, Oregon, built many convents, and "has done much important work for the different Catholic organizations", although not Catholic himself. Foreign a period of 17 years, Otto Kleemann was grand adjutant of the Indian War Veterans of the North Pacific Coast, a regent of Multnomah Council Number.
1481 Royal Arcanum. Anna Kleemann died in 1915.
Otto Kleemann remarried in June 1916, to Nellie A. Taylor, in The Dalles, Oregon. After moving to Portland in late 1880, Kleemann continued to reside there until his death, in 1936.
He was buried at River View Cemetery. Francis R. Chown House (1882), a High Victorian style building at 2030 Southwest Main Street
Rosa Reed House (1887), a Queen Anne architecture style building at 2036-2038 Southwest Main Street in Portland.
Saint Mary"s Academy (1890)
The Oregonian Building (1892), Southwest 6th and Alder, demolished 1950.
Consulting architect only (to Reid & Reid)
Hotel Arminius (1904) at 1022-1038 Southwest Morrison Street
Reed-Wells House (1905) at 2168 North-East Multnomah Street.
He was also president of the Consolidation of German Speaking Societies of Oregon, a life member of the German Aid Society, and a member of the Masonic fraternity.