{"nrhp_refnum":"76001390","name":"Cleveland Harbor Station, U.S. Coast Guard","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"New West Pier","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50305224300007,"lon":-81.71275795199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story reinforced concrete Coast Guard station on filled land at the end of a narrow causeway on the New West Pier in Cleveland harbor, Ohio, completed and dedicated in August 1940 and designed by J. Milton Dyer.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the station is a rare, purely functional building conceived as a work of art and a significant example of the \"modernistic\" style, described as among the finest in the nation. It also shows the versatility of Dyer, a Beaux-Arts-trained eclectic architect who designed it at age 70. It was nominated despite being only 35 years old because of the rarity of its design.","narrative":"Cleveland Harbor Station is a Coast Guard base built on filled land at the end of a narrow causeway on the New West Pier. Completed and dedicated in August 1940 at a cost of $360,000, it is a two-story reinforced concrete complex with a sixty-foot lookout tower, a boat house with three slips, and a separate garage. Its flat and curved surfaces were designed to evoke a ship, with curved bulkhead-like masses under the porte-cochere, a tower derived from a funnel or mast, and small passageways recalling life below decks. Architect J. Milton Dyer, trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and known for revival-style buildings such as Cleveland City Hall, produced this modernistic work at age 70. The station was recognized as a rare, purely functional building treated as a work of art, and as a distinctive example of its style despite its relatively young age. The basic structure remains largely unaltered.","period_of_significance":"1940","architect_builder":"J. Milton Dyer (architect)","architectural_style":"\"Modernistic\"","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in excellent condition, unaltered and on its original site; occupied and in government use. The interior was redecorated in 1973. The form notes the facility was threatened with abandonment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.933208-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001390.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001390/b15ad1f82e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001390/b15ad1f82e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"k_e_lewis","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Coast_Guard_station.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">k_e_lewis</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Coast_Guard_station.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987798","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137698197"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/cleveland-harbor-station-u-s-coast-guard-76001390/"}