{"nrhp_refnum":"12001214","name":"West 25th Street-Detroit Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Detroit Ave., Aust Ct., W. 25th & W. 28th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.49014687600004,"lon":-81.70790015799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2013-01-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Industry","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of 16 buildings (13 counted as contributing) around Detroit Avenue and West 25th Street in the Ohio City area of Cleveland, Ohio, with buildings dating from 1836 to about 1960.","why_significant":"The district reflects the commercial, industrial, religious and transportation development of a major gateway between downtown Cleveland and Ohio City. It includes the county's earliest surviving church, a former brewery, an Odd Fellows hall, and a bank building tied to streetcar service. Its present form also reflects the 1953 tornado and the end of streetcar service in the mid-1950s.","narrative":"Located at the intersection of Detroit Avenue and West 25th Street in Cleveland, this district marks a major entrance from downtown into Ohio City. It contains 16 buildings from 1836 to about 1960, mostly brick commercial and industrial structures. The oldest is St. John's Episcopal Church, a Gothic Revival sandstone building from 1836 designed by Hezekiah Eldridge. Other features include the former Baehr Brewery complex, the Italianate and Neo-Classical commercial blocks, the Cudell & Richardson-designed Seymour Block, the 1904 Forest City Savings and Trust Building with its former streetcar subway entrance, and the 1924 Lather's Union Building. The area developed as the Superior Viaduct (1878) and the High Level Bridge (1917) linked it to downtown. A 1953 tornado damaged the southern buildings, including the Odd Fellows building, which lost its upper floors. The period of significance runs from 1836 to 1954, covering the district's growth and the changes that followed the tornado and the end of streetcar service.","period_of_significance":"1836-1954","architect_builder":"Hezekiah Eldridge (St. John's Church); Cudell & Richardson (Odd Fellows Building, Seymour Block); Searles and Hirsch (Forest City Savings and Trust); W.W. Hodger Co. (1444-1448 W. 25th St.); Dresser Minton Scobell Co. (Lather's Union Building)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, Late 19th/Early 20th Century American Commercial, Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Several buildings were altered after the 1953 tornado; the Seymour Block was recently rehabilitated. Current uses include commerce, religion and residential.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.951269-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/12001214.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987829","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/west-25th-street-detroit-avenue-historic-district-12001214/"}