{"nrhp_refnum":"06000202","name":"Upper Downtown Canton Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Market Ave., bet. Sixth St. N and 2nd St. S., E to W variable Boundary","address_restricted":false,"city":"Canton","county":"Stark County","state":"OH","lat":40.80167023550004,"lon":-81.3752772805517,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-06-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial and civic historic district of 34 blocks radiating north, east and west from Public Square in downtown Canton, Stark County, Ohio, centered on Market and Cleveland Avenues. It contains 80 buildings and one object, plus nine buildings already individually listed, dating from 1881 to 1955.","why_significant":"The district preserves the core of Canton's commercial center as it expanded north and south from Public Square beginning in the 1880s, tied to the city's steel, paving brick and other industries. It holds a varied collection of low- to mid-rise commercial, financial, civic and religious buildings in late 19th and early 20th century revival styles, including two high-rise bank towers.","narrative":"Upper Downtown Canton Historic District covers 34 blocks reaching north, east and west from Public Square in Canton, Ohio, anchored by Market Avenue and Cleveland Avenue. It counts 50 contributing buildings, 30 non-contributing buildings and one non-contributing object, along with nine buildings already individually listed, among them the Palace Theater, Stark County Courthouse, Onesto Hotel and Trinity Lutheran Church. Contributing buildings date from 1881 to 1955 and are mostly commercial in form, with Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Beaux-Arts Classical and Art Deco details. Two bank towers rise along Market Avenue: the George Harter Bank, with a twelve-story Sullivanesque tower, and the fourteen-story First National Bank. The district reflects the northward and southward growth of Canton's business center from the 1880s, supported by electric streetcars and by local steel and paving brick industries. The 1914 Renkert Building, faced with Metropolitan paving bricks, was the city's first skyscraper.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Various, including John Eberson, Walker and Weeks, Frank L. Packard, Guy Tilden, Abram Garfield, and Charles E. Firestone","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mixed continuing commercial, government, religious and apartment uses; some buildings rehabilitated in 2002-2005.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.671715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/06000202.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000202/f9f06772d9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000202/f9f06772d9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Niagara66","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upper_Downtown_Canton_Historic_District_3.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara66</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upper_Downtown_Canton_Historic_District_3.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991448","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Downtown_Canton_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49573492"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/stark-county/upper-downtown-canton-historic-district-additional-documentation-06000202/"}