{"nrhp_refnum":"74001453","name":"St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"733 Starkweather Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.47730112200003,"lon":-81.68145399799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-01-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Russian Orthodox cathedral at 733 Starkweather Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, built of masonry and frame faced with yellow brick and consecrated in 1912. It is the third church building of the parish.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a representative response to the religious needs of immigrant communities and as one of the best examples of Russian Orthodox church architecture in the United States. Its design draws on the Church of Our Saviour in the Kremlin, Moscow. Its onion-shaped domes have been a visual landmark for West Side residents for over sixty years.","narrative":"Yellow brick walls and thirteen copper-roofed onion domes mark this Russian Orthodox cathedral on Starkweather Avenue in Cleveland. Consecrated in 1912, it is the third building of St. Theodosius, the city's first Orthodox parish, founded in 1896. The plan is a Greek cross within a square, with a polygonal apse, round-arched windows and circular wheel windows. The design borrows from the Church of Our Saviour in the Kremlin, Moscow, and resulted from a collaboration between Father Basil Lisenkovsky and Cleveland architect Frederick C. Baird. The thirteen domes symbolize Christ and the twelve apostles. Inside, an iconostas with three rows of icons painted in Russia separates the nave from the apse, and murals from 1954 cover the walls. The church was listed because it reflects the religious life of Cleveland's immigrant Russian community, is regarded as one of the country's best examples of Russian Orthodox architecture, and has long been a landmark above the Cuyahoga Valley Flats.","period_of_significance":"20th Century; specific date 1912","architect_builder":"Father Basil Lisenkovsky and Frederick C. Baird, a Cleveland architect (collaborative design); interior murals by Andrew Vasilievich Bicenko","architectural_style":"Byzantine eclectic, based on a specific Russian model","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered apart from the early 1950s redecoration; occupied and in religious use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.741074-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001453.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001453/9f36a3933a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001453/9f36a3933a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"w_lemay","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Theodosius_Russian_Orthodox_Cathedral,_Tremont,_Cleveland,_OH_-_52048996485.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">w_lemay</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:St._Theodosius_Russian_Orthodox_Cathedral,_Tremont,_Cleveland,_OH_-_52048996485.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94000719","name":"Tremont Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/tremont-historic-district-94000719/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987757","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Theodosius_Russian_Orthodox_Cathedral","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2028251"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/st-theodosius-russian-orthodox-cathedral-74001453/"}