{"nrhp_refnum":"82001378","name":"Bing's Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"302 E. Water St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandusky","county":"Erie County","state":"OH","lat":41.458248480000066,"lon":-82.70871229799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bing's Hotel is a three-story limestone building at 302 E. Water Street at Hancock Street in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, built about 1878 as a hotel and facing Sandusky Bay.","why_significant":"The building is considered important for its limestone Romanesque Revival architecture and because it served as a hotel for lake travelers. William Bing was its first proprietor, and by the mid-1880s it was known as the Lake View House. A reviewer's note indicates the significance should be framed in terms other than its use as a hotel.","narrative":"Bing's Hotel is a three-story limestone building on a corner of East Water Street in Sandusky, facing Sandusky Bay. Built about 1878 in the Romanesque Revival style, it has rock-faced ashlar walls, a cornice with stone dentils, a stone string course, a water table and arched cut-stone window lintels. Windows hold four-over-four panes, and many retain inside shutters. A large rear addition was built in 1884, and the first-floor business fronts were altered roughly a decade before the 1981 inventory. The building matters for its stonework and for its role in lake travel, since it served as a hotel for travelers arriving by water. William Bing was the first proprietor, and by the mid-1880s it was called the Lake View House, offering thirty rooms with parlors and dining apartments. By 1908 it was a wholesale grocery, and in 1940 it became a cake decorations firm. It now holds offices and shops in an area that is being revitalized.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior condition is listed as very good; the building currently houses offices and shops, and the first-floor storefronts were altered about ten years before the 1981 inventory.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.001399-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82001378.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001378/d49b78ae7c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001378/d49b78ae7c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bing%27s_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bing%27s_Hotel.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100001899","name":"Downtown Sandusky Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/downtown-sandusky-commercial-historic-district-100001899/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984854","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137771321"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/erie-county/bings-hotel-82001378/"}