{"nrhp_refnum":"82003601","name":"Steubenville YMCA Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"214 N. 4th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Steubenville","county":"Jefferson County","state":"OH","lat":40.362179569000034,"lon":-80.61385556699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story light Roman brick YMCA building at 214 North Fourth Street in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, opened to the public on April 29, 1909, and designed by Herbert B. Briggs of Briggs & Nelson, Cleveland.","why_significant":"The building is a handsome example of Second Renaissance Revival architecture. It also reflects the social and humanitarian concerns of Steubenville's business leaders around 1900 for the city's youth, including the sons of immigrant factory workers. Its construction in 1909 symbolizes the prosperity of the city's mercantile and industrial enterprises.","narrative":"Built in 1909 on North Fourth Street in Steubenville, this four-story light Roman brick building served as the city's YMCA. Herbert B. Briggs of the Cleveland firm Briggs & Nelson designed it in the Second Renaissance Revival style. The facade has a rusticated stone base, brick pilasters with terra-cotta Corinthian capitals, and a dentiled cornice carrying the words Young Men's Christian Association. Inside were a lobby with Colonial Revival fireplaces, an assembly room, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, and dormitory rooms on the upper floors. Steubenville business leaders raised funds for it, partly to serve the sons of immigrants working in the city's factories, and a $15,000 estate gift in 1904 revived the effort after earlier associations failed. The building hosted high school basketball games and later a youth club called Swing Haven. A 1950 remodeling altered the lobby and removed the running track. Membership declined along with the central city, and the building was later sold in hopes of reopening it.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Herbert B. Briggs","architectural_style":"Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as fair condition, altered, and unoccupied; the building was recently sold to two local businessmen who hope to rehabilitate and reopen it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.471353-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003601.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003601/f2eca57976-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003601/f2eca57976-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Roseohioresident","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steubenville_YMCA_Building_2012-07-13.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Roseohioresident</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:Steubenville_YMCA_Building_2012-07-13.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989486","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138378962"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/jefferson-county/steubenville-ymca-building-82003601/"}