{"nrhp_refnum":"73001406","name":"Bingham Company Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1278 W. 9th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.498889967000025,"lon":-81.70121026799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-11-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story, L-shaped wholesale warehouse at 1278 West 9th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, built in 1914-1915 for the Bingham Company to designs by Walker and Weeks.","why_significant":"The nomination argues its primary significance is architectural: it is one of the finest examples of the Commercial Style in Cleveland and an unusually refined design for a utilitarian warehouse. It also represents the Bingham Company, a pioneer Cleveland hardware firm founded in 1841 by William Bingham.","narrative":"Rising eight stories on West 9th Street in Cleveland, this L-shaped wholesale warehouse was built in 1914-1915 of steel, concrete and brick. The east facade is about 100 feet wide and the building runs more than 400 feet deep. Vertical brick piers, recessed spandrels and grouped windows give the elevations a Sullivanesque look, while the ground-floor entrance has a rectangular patterned frame described as somewhat Wrightian. Inside are open storage floors with supporting posts, built to carry up to 600 pounds per square foot. Cleveland architects Walker and Weeks designed it, the firm also responsible for the Cleveland Public Library, the Federal Reserve Bank and Severance Hall. Rather than relying on ornament, the design uses the color and texture of brick and careful proportion. The Bingham Company, a hardware business founded in 1841 by William Bingham, built it. It is regarded as one of the best Commercial Style buildings in the city and a utilitarian structure of unusual design quality.","period_of_significance":"20th Century; specific date 1915","architect_builder":"Walker and Weeks (architects); built by the Bingham Company","architectural_style":"Commercial Style, with Sullivanesque and Wrightian elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition and unaltered, on its original site; the company offices are in the ground floor section.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.270048-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001406.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001406/7711df7a12-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001406/7711df7a12-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Eli Pousson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bingham.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli Pousson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bingham.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82003558","name":"Cleveland Warehouse District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/cleveland-warehouse-district-82003558/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987536","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_Company_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30152345"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/bingham-company-warehouse-73001406/"}