{"nrhp_refnum":"75001311","name":"Ashtabula Harbour Commercial District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Both sides of W. 5th St. from 1200 block to Ashtabula River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ashtabula","county":"Ashtabula County","state":"OH","lat":41.899607427000035,"lon":-80.79944816099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district of about one and a half blocks of storefronts along West 5th Street (historically Bridge Street) in Ashtabula Harbour, Ashtabula, Ohio, built up mainly between the Civil War and the early 1900s.","why_significant":"The street conveys the feeling of a former bustling commercial town on an important Great Lakes harbor. Architecturally, it represents a late nineteenth century commercial street ranging from High Victorian Italianate to Neo-Classical styles, with variety in materials, color and topography. The form calls it a distinguishable group whose components may lack individual distinction.","narrative":"Along West 5th Street in Ashtabula Harbour, about two miles north of the main center of Ashtabula, a block and a half of commercial storefronts recalls the town's days as a busy lake port. Most buildings are brick, with a few wood-frame ones, and they show High Victorian Italianate and late nineteenth century commercial styling, including bracketed or corbelled cornices, some round-arched openings, and touches of Eastlake and Queen Anne detail. A Neo-Classical Revival bank stands at the Hulbert Street corner. Ashtabula Harbour was a separate village until the mid-1870s, and its harbor was used as early as 1801. Much of this district was built between the end of the Civil War and 1878, and building continued until shortly after 1900. The street was long known as Bridge Street because it leads to the drawbridge at the river mouth. Although some lots are empty and many storefronts have been altered, the varied materials, colors and changes in elevation preserve a nineteenth century character.","period_of_significance":"1870-1910","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"High Victorian Italianate and late nineteenth century commercial, with some Eastlake and Queen Anne details and a Neo-Classical Revival bank","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated fair to poor; several lots in the western block are empty and many ground floor fronts have been re-faced with modern materials. A former bank building is used by the city board of education.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.227572-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001311.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001311/d36f0808f2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001311/d36f0808f2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Roland Penttila","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1121_W._5th_St.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Penttila</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:1121_W._5th_St.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986661","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtabula_Harbour_Commercial_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4805933"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/ashtabula-county/ashtabula-harbour-commercial-district-75001311/"}