{"nrhp_refnum":"82003558","name":"Cleveland Warehouse District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Front and Superior Aves., Railroad, Summit, 3rd, and 10th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.49997433850007,"lon":-81.70062286619756,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial and warehouse historic district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, covering about 55 acres and portions of eight city blocks with 70 buildings, dating mainly from 1850 to 1921.","why_significant":"The district is the remnant of Cleveland's wholesale and warehouse quarter, which grew from the 1850s into the early 20th century. It shows the shift in building structure from masonry bearing walls to cast-iron columns and then steel frames, within a few years of similar changes in Chicago. Six buildings are already individually listed, mostly for architecture.","narrative":"Cleveland's Warehouse District is a 55-acre area of 70 buildings along West 9th, West 6th, West 3rd, St. Clair and Lakeside Avenues. It preserves the wholesale and warehouse quarter that grew from the 1850s, when the former residential area began filling with commercial blocks. The oldest building is Hilliard's Block of 1850. Tenants included dry goods and grocery wholesalers, hardware dealers, clothing makers, and the offices of iron, coal, railroad and shipping firms. The buildings also show how construction changed over time, from masonry bearing walls to cast-iron columns and finally steel frames. The Perry-Payne Building of 1889 was the first in Cleveland with metal posts on every story, and the 17-story Rockefeller Building of 1903 is a Sullivanesque steel-frame tower. Six buildings are individually listed. Although many structures were lost, often replaced by parking lots, about two-thirds of the original buildings remain and convey the city's 19th and early 20th century commercial history.","period_of_significance":"1850-1921","architect_builder":"Cudell and Richardson; Burnham & Root; Knox & Elliot; Walker & Weeks","architectural_style":"Victorian Italianate, Commercial Style, Sullivanesque, and Florentine Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked occupied and altered, in good condition. Parking lots cover about 30% of the area, and about two-thirds of the original structures remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.108488-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003558.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003558/d0038e1a6a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003558/d0038e1a6a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleveland_West9th.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleveland_West9th.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987576","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse_District,_Cleveland","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7969288"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/cleveland-warehouse-district-82003558/"}