{"nrhp_refnum":"73001424","name":"Western Reserve Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1468 W. 9th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.49727897900004,"lon":-81.69951551699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story office building at 1468 West 9th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, on a triangular plot where West 9th and West 10th Streets meet Superior Avenue. It was built in 1891-1892 to designs by the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham.","why_significant":"It holds a place in the chronological development of the skyscraper and is tied to Cleveland industrialist Samuel Mather, for whom it was built. It is one of three tall office buildings Burnham designed in Cleveland between 1888 and 1893, and its design adapts subtly to its triangular site. A later correction found its structure to be transitional, with load-bearing masonry walls and iron interior supports, rather than a true steel frame.","narrative":"Rising eight stories on a triangular lot where West 9th and West 10th Streets meet Superior Avenue in Cleveland, this office building was designed by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham and built in 1891-1892 for industrialist Samuel Mather. The ground story has heavy pink sandstone piers with stylized Romanesque capitals, while the upper floors are faced in brick with ranks of bay windows and round arches at the seventh story. A simple curved cornice of corbeled brick resembles that of Burnham's Monadnock in Chicago. The building was first described as steel-framed, but later study found load-bearing masonry exterior walls, cast and wrought iron interior supports and tile arch floors. That makes its structure transitional between Burnham's other Cleveland buildings, the Society National Bank and the Cuyahoga Building. It was recognized for its role in early skyscraper development, its fit to the irregular site, and its link to Mather, a leading Cleveland civic figure.","period_of_significance":"1891 (19th century)","architect_builder":"Daniel H. Burnham (architect); built for Samuel Mather","architectural_style":"Chicago style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and altered, with the main entrance refaced in granite and the lobby remodeled with marble. Restoration work was under way when the description was later corrected.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.357686-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001424.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001424/0c74a87199-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001424/0c74a87199-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Reserve_Bldg.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LeeG7144</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Reserve_Bldg.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/71987574","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137698004"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/western-reserve-building-73001424/"}