{"nrhp_refnum":"75001369","name":"Grand Pacific Hotel","other_names":["Kucklicks Furniture Warehouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8112 Columbia Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Olmsted Falls","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.37426545500006,"lon":-81.90196355899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-10-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-and-a-half-story frame Greek Revival building at 8112 Columbia Road in Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, dating from the 1850s, with 1890s commercial additions. It was built as a railroad hotel and later served as a hardware store.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare surviving wooden Greek Revival structure used as a railroad hotel, and likely the oldest commercial building in the township. It served travelers on the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad line for about forty years, then operated as a hardware store for nearly eighty years.","narrative":"Built in the 1850s, this large frame building on Columbia Road in Olmsted Falls began as the Grand Pacific Hotel, serving travelers who arrived on the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad after the line opened through town in 1853. Its first proprietor was Thomas Brown, and square dances were held in the plaster-finished attic. Later operators renamed it, including Hotel DeCarpenter in the 1870s, which housed hundreds of transients in a single winter. In 1893 the Simmerer family acquired it, added display windows, a recessed center entrance and a one-story west wing, and ran a hardware store there until 1971. The two-and-a-half-story structure retains Greek Revival features such as a frieze and cornice returns. It is considered a rare surviving wooden Greek Revival building used as a hotel and probably the oldest commercial structure in the township. A local tradition that it was moved from across the Rocky River remains unverified.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850's","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, with additions in the commercial vernacular of the 1890s","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition and altered, on its original site since 1855; in commercial use (furniture warehouse) at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.76627-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001369.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001369/02a170f398-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001369/02a170f398-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Pacific_Hotel_in_Olmsted_Falls.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Pacific_Hotel_in_Olmsted_Falls.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"00000798","name":"Olmsted Falls Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/olmsted-falls-historic-district-00000798/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987540","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137727242"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/grand-pacific-hotel-75001369/"}