{"nrhp_refnum":"85000944","name":"Gordon Square Building","other_names":["Gordon Arcade"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6500-6616 Detroit Ave. and 1396-1490 W. 65th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.48429384100007,"lon":-81.73075959099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-04-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story and basement steel-frame, red brick multipurpose commercial building at 6500-6616 Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street in Cleveland's Detroit Shoreway (Gordon Square) neighborhood, built 1920-1921 and designed by Prack & Prack Associates of Pittsburgh.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an unusual multipurpose structure and a later example of Cleveland's arcade building type, significant for its plan rather than its style or ornament. It housed shops, a market, theatre, billiard hall, offices and a hotel, and became the commercial focal point of the neighborhood. It is described as unique in Cleveland and possibly in Ohio.","narrative":"Completed in 1921 at Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street in Cleveland, the Gordon Square Building (also called the Gordon Arcade) is a three-story red brick structure with a basement and steel frame. A syndicate of West Side businessmen, the Gordon Square Company, built it from designs by the Pittsburgh firm Prack & Prack Associates. A single-story arcade lined with shops runs the length of the building. The original program combined retail stores, a food market, a movie theatre, a billiard hall, second-floor offices and a seventy-room hotel on the third floor, all in about 145,000 square feet. The nomination values the building mainly for this plan, which it calls unique in Cleveland and possibly Ohio, and for its role as the commercial center of the neighborhood when most shoppers walked or rode streetcars. Alterations include remodeled storefronts and a parapet lost after a 1978 collapse. Many original interior features remain, and several of the original uses continued.","period_of_significance":"1920-1921","architect_builder":"Prack & Prack Associates","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Partly occupied at time of nomination: retail stores, offices, a movie theatre and a residence hotel were in use, while the basement and former market were largely vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.214917-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85000944.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000944/932a1558dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000944/932a1558dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cricchetti","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gordon_Square_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cricchetti</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:Gordon_Square_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987564","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137707497"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/gordon-square-building-85000944/"}