The firm designed a wide range of buildings, but specialized in jails, prisons, and other correctional facilities.
Its most notable projects include the Municipal Court, Hall of Justice, jail, and courthouse annex at the Franklin County Government Center in Columbus, Ohio, and the courthouse, jail, and county sheriff headquarters at the Justice Center Complex in Cleveland, Ohio.
[8] The Municipal Court won the firm a Bridge Prize for merit for its elevated pedestrian skywalk from the American Institute of Steel Construction.
The county sued the firm in 1983 over a leaky roof, an exterior facade which broke off in sections, and poor plumbing.
The school board sued the Prindle, Patrick and Associates for mismanaging the projects—charges the firm promptly and strenuously denied.
But the county sheriff refused to house inmates there when it opened in March 1982, arguing that the jail's design was unsafe for his jailers.
[19] But the building leaked severely, and the contractor sued the architects for providing a substandard design and requiring inferior materials.
[23] A subsidiary architectural firm, Prindle, Patrick & Orput, was established in Illinois in the mid 1980s to solicit business in that state.