{"nrhp_refnum":"86001053","name":"Barr Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201--209 E. High and 200--218 N. Union Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lima","county":"Allen County","state":"OH","lat":40.737786294000045,"lon":-84.10303668899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seven-story, F-shaped brick hotel at 201-209 East High Street and 200-218 North Union Street in downtown Lima, Allen County, Ohio, built in 1922 and incorporating an earlier 1914 building to the south.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the hotel as a little-altered early 20th-century hotel that represents the fourth and most recent era of prosperity in Lima's economic history. It was one of four hotels built in Lima between 1910 and 1925 to house the influx of travellers. Its location 1-1/2 blocks from the rail depot made it the first choice for rail passengers.","narrative":"Barr Hotel is a seven-story, F-shaped brick building at the corner of East High and North Union Streets in downtown Lima, Ohio. Built in 1922, it incorporated a 1914 building to the south. Ortha O. Barr, a local attorney who also served as a state legislator and prosecuting attorney, developed the complex. The Neo-Classical design includes a cut stone watertable, large display windows, glazed brick pilasters with stylized Ionic capitals, and a roofline with brackets, wide eaves and dentiles. A small 1930 two-story building at the southeast corner, originally the Ohio Electric Passenger Terminal, became the Rainbow Room nightclub in 1939. The hotel was one of four built in Lima between 1910 and 1925 for travellers drawn by locomotive manufacturing and the oil pipeline industry. Sitting 1-1/2 blocks from the railroad depot, it was the first choice of rail passengers. The Barr family kept it through the 1950s. It is now vacant, with reuse for elderly housing planned.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect and builder unknown; complex developed by Ortha O. Barr","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Style or Design","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as vacant, in fair condition inside and out, with plans to develop it as a senior citizens center and housing for the elderly.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.227175-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/86001053.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001053/62bfb6658d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001053/62bfb6658d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barr_Hotel,_Lima,_blue_sky.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barr_Hotel,_Lima,_blue_sky.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984450","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4863104"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/allen-county/barr-hotel-86001053/"}