{"nrhp_refnum":"11000670","name":"Moreland Theater Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"11810-11824 Buckeye Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.480591856000046,"lon":-81.60025392199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","European"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, steel-frame brick theater and commercial building at 11810-11824 Buckeye Road on Cleveland's east side, built in 1927. It holds a theater, four ground-floor stores, and offices and apartments upstairs.","why_significant":"The excerpt describes a largely intact 1920s theater with ornate baroque interiors and original storefronts. The building also served the Hungarian community of the Buckeye neighborhood as a movie house, political meeting hall and commercial center. The significance section is truncated, so the exact criteria rationale is not fully visible.","narrative":"Built in 1927 on Buckeye Road in Cleveland, this two-story steel-frame building combines a vaudeville-era theater with shops, offices and apartments. The facade uses tapestry brick with limestone facing and Artstone trim. A broad arched theater entrance is topped by a large Palladian-style window with lion's heads. Inside, the lobby keeps its terrazzo floor and plaster decoration, and the auditorium retains baroque ornament, including original lamps hung from griffin-shaped brackets. Dressing rooms below the stage reflect its vaudeville origins. The theater showed Hollywood and Hungarian films and hosted political rallies, serving the Hungarian community of the Buckeye neighborhood. It closed for lack of business in March 1950 and later reopened with irregular programming, then was remodeled as a dinner theater in 1963. A church moved in during 1978 and made alterations. Neighboring businesses such as a jewelry store and a Hungarian pharmacy anchored the district. Today one store is occupied by a tailor, and the rest of the building is vacant.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals","criteria":[],"status_note":"A tailor shop occupies one store; the remainder of the building is vacant and in fair condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.412088-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/11000670.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000670/1c486bac77-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000670/1c486bac77-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moreland_Theater_front.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moreland_Theater_front.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100010698","name":"Buckeye Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/buckeye-commercial-historic-district-100010698/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987664","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43159576"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/moreland-theater-building-11000670/"}