{"nrhp_refnum":"78002040","name":"Lindner Building","other_names":["Bonwit Teller Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1331 Euclid Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50116851200005,"lon":-81.68182444399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story commercial building with a limestone facade at 1331 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, completed in 1915 for the Lindner Company women's apparel store and designed by New York architect Robert D. Kohn.","why_significant":"It is one of the major works of progressive architect Robert Kohn. It is also an unusual survivor from the era when upper Euclid Avenue held one of the country's largest concentrations of clothing retailers. Its open glass facade, which combines Classical and Art Nouveau motifs, departed from the commercial styles of its time.","narrative":"Built in 1915 at 1331 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, this five-story skeletal-frame building was designed by New York architect Robert D. Kohn for the Lindner Company, a women's apparel business founded by Max J. Lindner. Its limestone facade is organized in five bays separated by full-height piers that rise into pinnacles, with tall glass walls, thin metal mullions and segmental arches across the upper floors. The design mixes Classical ornament with Art Nouveau motifs in a modern, abstract effect. The store later became part of the Sterling-Lindner-Davis department store, was remodeled by Bonwit Teller in the early 1950s, and then housed a discount store before standing vacant. The ground floor and interiors have been changed, but the upper facade remains largely intact. It was valued as a major work by Kohn, an early modern architect and Progressive reformer, and as a reminder of Euclid Avenue's days as a major clothing retail district.","period_of_significance":"1915","architect_builder":"Robert D. Kohn","architectural_style":"Combination of Classical and Art Nouveau motifs","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as vacant at the time of nomination; the facade is in good condition and mostly intact, though the ground floor and interiors have been altered.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.154848-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002040.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002040/6192080942-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002040/6192080942-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Eli Pousson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lindner_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli Pousson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lindner_Building.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000702","name":"Euclid Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/euclid-avenue-historic-district-02000702/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987532","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137698759"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/lindner-building-78002040/"}