{"nrhp_refnum":"74001445","name":"North Presbyterian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4001 Superior Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.51434457700003,"lon":-81.66206878099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A church and Sunday school building at 4001 Superior Avenue in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, of brick and frame construction, erected in 1886-1887.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a remarkable example of nineteenth century church architecture, notable for adapting eclectic Romanesque and Gothic styles to the needs of the congregation. Its Sunday school rooms are arranged around the sanctuary and expressed on the exterior, announcing its focus on church education. It also served growing numbers of Slovak, Croatian, Serbian and Romanian mill and factory workers in the twentieth century.","narrative":"Built in 1886-1887 at 4001 Superior Avenue in Cleveland, this brick and frame church is essentially a large rectangular block with a short tower centered on its long facade. Its design mixes Romanesque and Gothic revival elements: rounded corners resemble fortress towers, nine two-story Gothic windows line the front, and the piers between them are capped with pyramidal finials. Those tall windows light two floors of Sunday school rooms rather than the sanctuary, which sits at the rear beneath a high roof. The Sunday school rooms open into the auditorium in the Akron plan. The congregation grew from a Sunday school begun in 1859, and the building was designed specifically for Sunday school work. Its exterior openly expresses that educational purpose, and it has often been mistaken for a public school. The nomination values its creative handling of nineteenth century eclectic styles. In the twentieth century the church also served Slovak, Croatian, Serbian and Romanian workers employed in nearby mills and factories.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1887)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Eclectic combination of Romanesque and Gothic revival elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent to good condition, in religious use; interior changes are cosmetic only, with no major structural alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.235983-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001445.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001445/720233075a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001445/720233075a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 1.0","author":"Christopher Busta-Peck | Talk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Presbyterian_Church_Cleveland_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Busta-Peck | Talk</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 1.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Presbyterian_Church_Cleveland_Ohio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987646","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Presbyterian_Church_(Cleveland)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716760"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/north-presbyterian-church-74001445/"}