{"nrhp_refnum":"05000024","name":"St. Edward Hotel","other_names":["Yohe Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Market Ave. N","address_restricted":false,"city":"Canton","county":"Stark County","state":"OH","lat":40.800659524000025,"lon":-81.37379475499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story red brick hotel building at 400 Market Avenue North in downtown Canton, Stark County, Ohio, built in 1891 as the Yohe Hotel on the northeast corner of Market Avenue North and East 4th Street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant under Criterion B for its association with Edward J. Meyer (1858-1920), a Canton civic leader, businessman and entrepreneur who bought and renamed it in 1903. It is described as the only remaining building closely tied to Meyer's business interests, since his other works are gone. The period of significance runs from his purchase in 1903 to his sale in 1914.","narrative":"Rising four stories at the corner of Market Avenue North and East 4th Street in downtown Canton, this red brick Italianate commercial building was constructed in 1891 as the Yohe Hotel for Professor George W. Yohe, a local educator. It features a chamfered corner, paired windows set in recessed spandrels, and a pressed metal cornice added around 1910. In 1903 Edward J. Meyer, a Canton businessman, civic booster and developer of Meyer's Lake amusement park, bought the hotel, renamed it the St. Edward, and added an elevator and improved heating and lighting. He lived there with his family for several years and sold the building in 1914. The hotel closed in 1921, and the building later held shops, a furniture warehouse and a beauty school. The building is considered significant because most of Meyer's other enterprises have disappeared, leaving the hotel as the principal surviving tie to his career. Its current use is listed as vacant.","period_of_significance":"1903-1914","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant; the rear wall was being rebuilt after an adjacent two-story building was removed.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.515808-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/05000024.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000024/81caaef56e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000024/81caaef56e-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Roseohioresident","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Edward_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Roseohioresident</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Edward_Hotel.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"06000202","name":"Upper Downtown Canton Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/upper-downtown-canton-historic-district-additional-documentation-06000202/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991438","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138679953"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/stark-county/st-edward-hotel-05000024/"}