{"nrhp_refnum":"74001428","name":"Bay View Hospital","other_names":["Washington H. Lawrence House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"23200 Lake Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bay Village","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.48237052300004,"lon":-81.87639220399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-08-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large three-story mansion at 23200 Lake Road in Bay Village, Ohio, built in 1898 as the summer residence of industrialist Washington H. Lawrence and later converted to Bay View Hospital. It was designed by the Cleveland firm Coburn and Barnum.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a spectacular example of eclectic architecture and a representative lakeshore mansion of a wealthy industrialist class. It is also structurally innovative, with steel and concrete floors and walls used in a residence at the turn of the century. Its park-like Lake Erie setting conveys the lifestyle of the very wealthy around 1900.","narrative":"Built in 1898 on the Lake Erie shore in Bay Village, this three-story mansion was designed by the Cleveland firm Coburn and Barnum for Washington H. Lawrence, founder and president of the National Carbon Company. Yellow brick walls, a red tile roof, octagonal corner towers, a three-arch Romanesque loggia and tall chimneys give it a Shingle Style mass with Richardsonian Romanesque detail. Inside, the walls and floors are steel and concrete, an unusual choice for a house of that date. Frank S. Barnum, the firm's innovative member, used the technique several years before it appeared in his Cleveland office buildings. Lawrence died in 1900, and his family used the house until 1946, when a hospital acquired it. Interiors were largely remodeled and a patient wing was added to the north, but the front view from Lake Road remains largely intact. The nomination covers only the original residence and its lakefront setting.","period_of_significance":"1898","architect_builder":"Coburn and Barnum (Frank S. Barnum was the innovative member of the firm)","architectural_style":"Shingle Style massing with some Richardsonian Romanesque detail","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a hospital; condition marked excellent but altered, with interiors largely modified since 1946 and a large patient wing added to the north. Only the original residence is nominated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.1972-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001428.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001428/aa9f48c601-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001428/aa9f48c601-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_View_Hospital.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_View_Hospital.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987656","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716367"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/bay-view-hospital-74001428/"}