{"nrhp_refnum":"82001366","name":"Cleveland Home For Aged Colored People","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4807 Cedar Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.500611107000054,"lon":-81.65378156699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-12-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2-1/2-story brick house at 4807 Cedar Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, built before 1892 in a late Victorian style with Colonial Revival features. It served as a home for elderly Black residents from 1914 to 1967 and is now used as a halfway house.","why_significant":"The building housed the oldest social institution for Black residents in Cleveland for 53 years. It reflects late 19th and early 20th century social consciousness and the leadership of Eliza Bryant. The home was founded in 1895 and moved into this house in 1914.","narrative":"This 2-1/2-story brick house at 4807 Cedar Avenue in Cleveland was built before 1892 as a late Victorian residence with Colonial Revival touches, including pedimented dormers and modillion brackets. Projecting bays mark both side elevations, and the double-hung windows include some diamond panes. A two-story rear wing was added to provide more residential space. The house sits on a narrow city lot in an older inner-city neighborhood near the Phillis Wheatley Association and Lane Metropolitan CME Church. It became the home of the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People in 1914 and remained so until 1967. The institution was founded in 1895 under the leadership of Eliza Bryant and had earlier occupied two smaller frame buildings that no longer survive. It was the oldest social institution for Black residents in Cleveland, and the building is valued as evidence of social concern in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It now serves as a halfway house.","period_of_significance":"1914-1967","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian - Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Currently used as a halfway house; interior and exterior condition described as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.211121-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82001366.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001366/9bd9765eea-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001366/9bd9765eea-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 1.0","author":"Christopher Busta-Peck","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleveland_Home_for_Aged_Colored_People.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:Cleveland_Home_for_Aged_Colored_People.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984712","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Home_for_Aged_Colored_People","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5132162"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/cleveland-home-for-aged-colored-people-82001366/"}