{"nrhp_refnum":"06000198","name":"Ohio Theatre","other_names":["St. Hedwig Coltural Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3114 Lagrange St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toledo","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.679250729000046,"lon":-83.54048777699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","European"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A neighborhood movie theater at 3114 Lagrange Street in the Polish Village (\"Lagrinka\") neighborhood northwest of downtown Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. It was completed in 1921 in a commercial neoclassical style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant under Criterion A for its long association with Toledo's largest Polish community and for its role in the entertainment history of the North End from 1921 to 1955. It is significant under Criterion C as an early example of the movie picture palace building type, bridging vaudeville and motion pictures. It is described as the only pre-1940 neighborhood movie theater in Toledo still operating as a movie theater.","narrative":"Completed in 1921, this neighborhood movie theater at 3114 Lagrange Street serves Toledo's Polish Village, historically known as Lagrinka. Stophlet and Stophlet designed the brick building in a commercial neoclassical style, with terra cotta details, copper lion masks, and an Italian Renaissance-inspired plaster auditorium. It was built on three parallelogram-shaped lots, giving the lobby and stage unusual triangular shapes. Originally seating 1,800, it now seats 967. A group of Polish-descended residents formed the amusement company that built it, and from 1921 to 1975 it was owned or managed by members of that community. It showed American and Polish silent films. The theater is considered an early example of the movie picture palace type, bridging vaudeville and film. Of more than sixty neighborhood theaters in Toledo's history, it is the only pre-1940 one built as a movie theater and still showing films.","period_of_significance":"1921-1955","architect_builder":"Architect: Stophlet and Stophlet; Contractor/Builder: Anthony Kocherowski, Lawrence V. Kubicki","architectural_style":"Classical Revival/Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still operating as a film and performing arts facility; the original marquee was destroyed by lightning in August 2004.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.511877-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/06000198.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000198/8c02483d08-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000198/8c02483d08-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Ohio Office of Redevelopment","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ohio_Theatre_Toledo_3.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio Office of Redevelopment</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ohio_Theatre_Toledo_3.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989997","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Theatre_(Toledo,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7080985"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/ohio-theatre-06000198/"}