{"nrhp_refnum":"76001402","name":"St. Elizabeth's Magyar Roman Catholic Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9016 Buckeye Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.485287862000064,"lon":-81.62332072199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large limestone Roman Catholic church at 9016 Buckeye Road in Cleveland, Ohio, built 1918-1922 to designs by architect Emile M. Uhlrich. It is the second church building of St. Elizabeth's, a Hungarian parish founded in 1892.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the second structure of the first Hungarian Roman Catholic church in the United States, serving one of the important American immigrant groups. It is also presented as a superior example of eclectic architecture in the Italian Baroque idiom, with a facade patterned on seventeenth-century Roman churches.","narrative":"St. Elizabeth's Magyar Roman Catholic Church, at 9016 Buckeye Road in Cleveland, is a large limestone church designed in an Italian Baroque eclectic style by Cleveland architect Emile M. Uhlrich. Its facade is modeled on seventeenth-century Roman churches, with a pedimented central portal, a rose window, and two square towers topped by open belfries and octagonal lanterns with ovoid cupolas. Side and rear walls are plain, with tall round-arched windows and a polygonal apse. Inside, a colonnaded center aisle carries a groined vault, and the side windows hold pictorial stained glass. The parish was established on December 11, 1892, as the first Hungarian Catholic church in the United States, led by Rev. Charles Boehm. A brick Gothic church built in 1893 was torn down in 1917, and the present building was begun in 1918 and dedicated in 1922. Cleveland had a large Hungarian population, and the church is recognized both for that immigrant history and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1892; 1918-1922","architect_builder":"Emile M. Uhlrich","architectural_style":"Italian Baroque eclectic idiom (data sheet also lists eclectic with Neo-Classical Revival elements)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition, in religious use as a church, with an original site and some alteration box noted; owned by the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.227068-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001402.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001402/9745de28ac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001402/9745de28ac-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 1.0","author":"Christopher Busta-Peck","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Elizabeths_Cleveland_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Busta-Peck</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 1.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Elizabeths_Cleveland_Ohio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987745","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elizabeth_of_Hungary_Shrine_(Cleveland)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7587839"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/st-elizabeths-magyar-roman-catholic-church-76001402/"}