{"nrhp_refnum":"79002159","name":"Ewart Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"921, 923 and 925 Liberty Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.44352704200003,"lon":-79.99751023999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Ewart Building is a nine-story commercial building on the north side of Liberty Avenue in the Golden Triangle district of downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It was erected around 1891 for wholesale grocer Samuel Ewart.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its architecture, as a Richardsonian Romanesque commercial building of the kind that was the leading style in Pittsburgh for about a quarter century after 1880. It also cites its role as one of few remaining Romanesque Revival commercial buildings on Liberty Avenue, where it is presented as important to the revitalization of the surrounding neighborhood.","narrative":"Nine stories of rough-hewn granite rise above three storefronts on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh's downtown Golden Triangle. Samuel Ewart, a wholesale grocer, bought the lots in 1891 and soon afterward built the present building on part of the original site of Fort Fayette. Its front facade is 67 feet 7 inches wide, with three tall arches springing from a two-story base and a pediment in the center bay that carries the carved name EWART. The sides are of brick, with paired windows in each bay. The building is an example of Richardsonian Romanesque, the leading style in Pittsburgh for about a quarter century after 1880. The nomination describes it as one of a handful of remaining Romanesque Revival commercial buildings on Liberty Avenue. Its surviving facade is presented as a reminder of the city's commercial prosperity in that era, and as a building whose preservation would help renew the surrounding blocks. Ewart's sons ran the business until 1925, and the family kept the building until 1969.","period_of_significance":"1891","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The building is described as being in remarkably good state of preservation, with alterations not detracting from its integrity.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.986826-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002159.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002159/2ac5f55de1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002159/2ac5f55de1-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ewart_7th_Av_sunny_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ewart_7th_Av_sunny_jeh.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"13000250","name":"Penn-Liberty Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/penn-liberty-historic-district-boundary-increase-13000250/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997712","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewart_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5418930"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/ewart-building-79002159/"}