He received his first architectural training in the office of Meade & Garfield, and afterwards studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
[1] He joined the Cleveland architectural office of William Watterson in 1901, and began independent practice in 1908.
[2] During his architectural career Schneider designed a number of offices, academic buildings, and residences.
Perhaps his best-known work is Stan Hywet (1915), an Akron mansion based on several English country houses.
[3] His academic work includes the ornate Italian Renaissance-style Rockefeller Physics Building (1905) and Quad Hall (1925) at the Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University), and Austin Hall at Ohio Wesleyan University.