{"nrhp_refnum":"86001055","name":"Detroit-Warren Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14801--14813 Detroit Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lakewood","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.48491511200007,"lon":-81.79952400299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story commercial building at 14801-13 Detroit Avenue, on the southwest corner of Detroit Avenue and Warren Road in Lakewood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was built in 1923 to a design by the Cleveland firm of Lehman and Schmitt.","why_significant":"The building is significant as a late, accomplished work of Lehman and Schmitt, a long-lived Cleveland architectural partnership, and as one of few surviving structures known to be designed by the firm. It is also considered the best commercial design of the 1920s in downtown Lakewood. It represents Lakewood's growth as a streetcar suburb with neighborhood-based services.","narrative":"Rising five stories at the corner of Detroit Avenue and Warren Road in Lakewood, Ohio, this 1923 commercial building was designed by the Cleveland firm of Lehman and Schmitt and originally housed medical offices. Its street-facing facades are light grey brick with white glazed terra cotta, including a neo-classical cornice, brick pilasters and spandrels carved with rosette variants that differ on each story. The ground floor is plainer and has been altered, though less severely than neighboring buildings. The site had earlier held the Tegardine family home, which served as Lakewood's first city hall. The design is valued as a late work by a firm active for about fifty years, whose other projects included the Cuyahoga County Courthouse, and as the best commercial design of the 1920s in central Lakewood. Its placement along the Detroit Avenue trolley line also illustrates how the city developed as a streetcar suburb with local services strung along a commercial strip.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1923)","architect_builder":"Lehman and Schmitt","architectural_style":"Eclectic commercial style with neo-classical cornice and pilasters","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and altered, with the ground floor storefronts modified; a 1986 city letter says the building is undergoing preservation. Present use is commercial.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.144604-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/86001055.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001055/d658f69be7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001055/d658f69be7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detroit-Warren_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detroit-Warren_Building.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100005539","name":"Lakewood Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/lakewood-downtown-historic-district-100005539/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987452","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137725287"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/detroit-warren-building-86001055/"}