{"nrhp_refnum":"84000621","name":"Medical Centre Building","other_names":["Community Service Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1001 Huron Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.500069170000074,"lon":-81.68492812699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eleven-story commercial office building at 1001 Huron Road in Cleveland, Ohio, built in 1923 by the Mecon Realty Company and designed and built by the W.S. Ferguson Company. It is also known as the Community Service Building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is architecturally notable for its eclectic terra cotta ornament, which is rare on a tall office building. It also reflects the eastward shift of downtown office space and the early development of centralized medical offices. Since 1937 it has housed the Welfare Federation and other social service agencies.","narrative":"Rising eleven stories and 128 feet along Huron Road in Cleveland, this steel-frame office building was completed in 1923 by the Mecon Realty Company and designed and built by the W.S. Ferguson Company. Its upper and lower floors carry heavy terra cotta ornament, including gargoyles shaped like griffins, dragons, a cow, a goat and a lion, plus shells, fleurs-de-lis, lyres and tridents. The building opened as the Medical Centre Building, the first downtown structure built as a centralized facility for physicians and dentists. Medical use faded as hospitals moved east. In 1937 the Welfare Federation leased it, renaming it the Community Service Building, and it became home to many social service agencies during the Depression years. The form notes that the windows and first-floor storefronts have been replaced, but the openings and ornament remain. It is recognized for its architecture and for its link to social and humanitarian work in Cleveland.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"W.S. Ferguson Company","architectural_style":"Commercial and eclectic design elements","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied; the form lists it as occupied and in commercial use, with the Welfare Federation (later the Federation for Community Planning) as office tenant since 1937. Original windows and first-floor storefronts have been replaced.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.700122-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/84000621.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000621/da2986d4ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000621/da2986d4ee-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LeeG7144","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1001_Huron_Rd.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LeeG7144</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:1001_Huron_Rd.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000702","name":"Euclid Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/euclid-avenue-historic-district-02000702/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987777","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137707285"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/medical-centre-building-84000621/"}