{"nrhp_refnum":"00001065","name":"New England Building","other_names":["Guardian Building","National City Bank Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"617-637 Euclid Ave., 614-626 Vincent Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.500226360000056,"lon":-81.68876388199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-09-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A sixteen-story masonry and steel office and banking building at 617-637 Euclid Avenue and 614-626 Vincent Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, built in 1895-96 to designs by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston and remodeled and enlarged in 1914-15 by Walker and Weeks.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a good example of an early skyscraper and of early 20th century bank design. Its Beaux-Arts banking hall by Walker and Weeks is described as lavish, and the building is credited with helping make Euclid Avenue Cleveland's main commercial and financial corridor. It is also tied to the history of National City Bank and to many prominent commercial tenants.","narrative":"Rising sixteen stories along Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, this office and bank building began in 1895-96 as a Chicago-style tower with Richardsonian Romanesque touches, designed by the Boston firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. In 1914-15 the Cleveland firm Walker and Weeks remodeled the Euclid Avenue front in the Beaux-Arts style, with fluted columns, Corinthian capitals and terra cotta ornament, and added a seventeen-story section reaching Vincent Avenue. Inside, the most important spaces are the forty-foot banking hall with marble columns and a gilded coffered ceiling, the basement vaults and the long public lobby. The upper office floors have been altered many times by tenants. National City Bank bought the building in 1944 and still has a presence there. The building was listed for its architecture as an early skyscraper and bank design, and for its role in making Euclid Avenue Cleveland's leading commercial and financial street.","period_of_significance":"1895-1945","architect_builder":"Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge: Boston; Walker and Weeks: Cleveland","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Beaux Arts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in continuous use as a banking hall and professional office space since the 1890s, partially occupied by National City Bank since 1944; the exterior retains general integrity, while upper-floor interiors are heavily altered and the mezzanine levels are currently unoccupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.472004-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/00001065.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001065/ff671d5702-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001065/ff671d5702-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Eli Pousson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guardian_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli Pousson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guardian_Building.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000702","name":"Euclid Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/euclid-avenue-historic-district-02000702/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987528","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Bank_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5614047"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/new-england-building-00001065/"}