{"nrhp_refnum":"74001440","name":"Hoyt Block","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"608 W. St. Clair St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.49980598800005,"lon":-81.69870405599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-01-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story red sandstone commercial block at 608 West St. Clair Avenue, at the corner of West 6th Street in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, opened in 1875 for lawyer and real estate dealer James M. Hoyt.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only remaining substantial stone commercial block in the High Victorian Italianate style in Cleveland's main commercial district of the mid-1870s. It is also the best surviving indication of the appearance of the larger Case Block, which served as City Hall from 1875 to 1916. The form speculates that Charles Heard, architect of the Case Block, may have designed it.","narrative":"Hoyt Block is a four-story commercial building of red sandstone bearing-wall construction at the corner of West St. Clair Avenue and West 6th Street in downtown Cleveland. Opened in 1875, it was built for James M. Hoyt, a prominent lawyer and real estate dealer who supported Cleveland's cultural and educational institutions. Its High Victorian Italianate design includes stilted segmental arches on the second and third story windows, round arches on the fourth, and a heavy stone cornice with closely spaced scrolled brackets. Original cast-iron columns survive only in the westernmost bay on St. Clair, while the West 6th Street side remains unaltered. Merchants in the clothing and textile trades occupied it for much of its life. It was listed as the only remaining substantial stone commercial block of its style and period in the central district, and as the best surviving hint of the demolished Case Block, Cleveland's City Hall from 1875 to 1916.","period_of_significance":"1875","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"High Victorian Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and occupied; the St. Clair Avenue ground story has been refaced with ceramic tile, while the West 6th Street elevation is unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.001886-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001440.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001440/da1dbf8b75-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001440/da1dbf8b75-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Eli Pousson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoyt_Block.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:Hoyt_Block.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/71987542","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137698105"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/hoyt-block-74001440/"}