{"nrhp_refnum":"75001468","name":"Berdan Building","other_names":["King Warehouse No. 1"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"601 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toledo","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.648397069000055,"lon":-83.54083505899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story brick commercial warehouse at 601 Washington in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, completed in 1902 for the Berdan Company, wholesale grocers, and also known as King Warehouse No. 1.","why_significant":"The building is described as an excellent example of early 20th-century commercial style, with an unusually distinctive window pattern on its load-bearing walls that makes it a Toledo landmark. It is also tied to the Ketcham, Secor and Berdan pioneer families, including John Berdan, Toledo's first mayor, whose wholesale grocery business grew from 1836.","narrative":"Rising five stories at 601 Washington in Toledo, this brick warehouse was built for the Berdan Company, wholesale grocers, and completed in 1902 to designs by Toledo architect George S. Mills. Its load-bearing brick walls carry wooden floors, and large delivery doors open at ground level, with terra cotta trim around the main doorway. Above, windows are grouped in tall arcaded ranks, topped by a fifth floor of smaller arches in sets of three. Each facade repeats the same pattern, which has often been compared with H. H. Richardson's Marshall Field Warehouse in Chicago. The company's roots reach to 1836, when Valentine Ketcham began trading in Toledo; John Berdan, the city's first mayor, was among the pioneer families involved, and the Berdan name took hold after 1854. The building is valued as an excellent example of early twentieth-century commercial architecture and as a Toledo landmark of first importance.","period_of_significance":"1902","architect_builder":"George S. Mills, Toledo architect","architectural_style":"Early 20th century commercial style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered, on its original site; present use is commercial.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.215132-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/75001468.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001468/fb2f9a8480-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001468/fb2f9a8480-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berdan_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berdan_Building.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"93000153","name":"Huron-Superior Streets Warehouse-Produce Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/huron-superior-streets-warehouse-produce-historic-district-93000153/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989949","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117066094"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/berdan-building-75001468/"}