{"nrhp_refnum":"84000259","name":"Walker and Weeks Office Building","other_names":["Cooper School of Art"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2341 Carnegie Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.49960314400005,"lon":-81.67234268399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-11-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-and-a-half-story brick and concrete office building at 2341 Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, built in 1926 and designed by the firm Walker and Weeks. The Hunkin-Conkey Company was the builder.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its architecture, its architects, and its role as an important office building in the Upper Prospect area. Its facade is cited as a good example of Neo-Classic commercial architecture in Cleveland. The top floors housed the offices of Walker and Weeks, who designed it after the firm had achieved success.","narrative":"Located at 2341 Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland, this five-and-a-half-story office building was completed in 1926 to designs by Walker and Weeks, with The Hunkin-Conkey Company as builder. Its walls combine brick and concrete, and the structure has a flat roof, a pier-and-spandrel wall treatment and a rectangular plan. The facade is Neo-Classic in character, with a gabled parapet containing an oculus, a round-arched arcade at the top level with a balustrade, engaged pilasters and a bronze balcony on the second level. The rear section is exposed concrete frame with industrial-size windows. The fifth and sixth floors served as the offices of Walker and Weeks from 1926 to 1936, and of Frank Walker until 1941. The firm designed Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Severance Hall, and the main Cleveland post office while working here. The building sits on a busy commercial street next to an expressway and now houses an art and drafting school.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Walker and Weeks (architects); The Hunkin-Conkey Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Neo-Classic Contemporary","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as an art and drafting school; exterior condition listed as good, with ground floor showrooms recently enclosed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.103092-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84000259.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000259/5cb4da75a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000259/5cb4da75a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walker_and_Weeks_Building,_Cleveland,_OH_(28812463127).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States</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:Walker_and_Weeks_Building,_Cleveland,_OH_(28812463127).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984644","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137707131"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/walker-and-weeks-office-building-84000259/"}