{"nrhp_refnum":"85003510","name":"East Fifth Street Historic District","other_names":["See also: East Liverpool Downtown Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Along E. Fifth St. between Market St. and Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Liverpool","county":"Columbiana County","state":"OH","lat":40.619358823000056,"lon":-80.57941502946608,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-11-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district of 16 buildings along East Fifth Street between Market Street and Broadway in downtown East Liverpool, Ohio, covering about 4 acres. Most buildings are brick structures of two to five stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for both history and architecture. It reflects the commercial prosperity of East Liverpool's pottery-industry peak between 1880 and the Depression. It is also one of the most intact, cohesive collections of late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings in the city, with fine terra cotta facades, decorative brickwork and two Neo-Classical Revival bank buildings.","narrative":"East Fifth Street is the present-day main commercial axis of East Liverpool, Ohio, and this district preserves a 16-building stretch of it between Market Street and Broadway. Most of the brick buildings, two to five stories tall, went up in the decades around 1900, many replacing structures lost in major downtown fires, including one in 1905 on the north side of the street. They date from the years when the pottery industry brought national prominence and rapid population growth to the city. Decorative brickwork appears on the Foutts Block, the McCrory Building and Annex, and the Golding Block. Finely detailed terra cotta marks several facades, including one with a Gothic Revival pointed-arch motif. Two Neo-Classical Revival bank buildings, the 1923 First National Bank and Potter's Bank & Trust, retain their two-story lobbies. Storefronts have often been altered, but scale, materials and period character remain. The district and The Diamond are described as the city's most cohesive commercial groupings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th century commercial to Neo-Classical Revival; early 20th century commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings remain in commercial use, with altered storefronts; the 1923 First National Bank lobby and the Potter's Bank & Trust lobby are intact. One building is noted as an intrusion because mesh screening covers its terra cotta facade.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.274516-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85003510.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003510/fcead6e13f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003510/fcead6e13f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"636Buster","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_5th_Street_Historic_District,_East_Liverpool,_Ohio_July_2022.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">636Buster</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_5th_Street_Historic_District,_East_Liverpool,_Ohio_July_2022.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000591","name":"East Liverpool Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/east-liverpool-downtown-historic-district-01000591/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984556","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Fifth_Street_Historic_District_(East_Liverpool,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5328350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/columbiana-county/east-fifth-street-historic-district-85003510/"}