{"nrhp_refnum":"86001718","name":"Travelers Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"115 E. Fourth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Liverpool","county":"Columbiana County","state":"OH","lat":40.61818727600007,"lon":-80.57987239799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick hotel at 115 East Fourth Street in downtown East Liverpool, Ohio. The original section dates to about 1908, with a rear wing about 1915 and a western addition in 1927.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under criterion A as a major expression of East Liverpool's social and commercial heritage. It was the city's premier hotel by the 1930s and a center for social events and pottery business, including a pottery sample room and a reserved round table for pottery owners. It is the last remaining downtown hotel from a period when the city had many small hotels.","narrative":"Rising four stories on East Fourth Street in downtown East Liverpool, this brick hotel was built in stages: an original section about 1908 to designs by local architect Cassius Metsch, a rear wing about 1915, and a large western addition in 1927. The older stonework is blackened by smoke from the city's pottery kilns, while the 1927 section still looks pale, so the facade records the decline of the local pottery industry. Inside are a marble lobby desk and cage salvaged from a bank, a large dining room, and a bar with a ceramic sculpture of a potter. The hotel is valued as the last of many downtown hotels that served business travelers and theatergoers. It stood across from the Ceramic Theatre, hosted touring performers, and by the 1930s was the city's premier hotel. Pottery owners had a reserved round table, and buyers viewed local wares in its sample room.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Cassius Metsch (1908 construction); builder unknown","architectural_style":"No academic style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Operating as a hotel with a dining room and bar; interior and exterior condition listed as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.221175-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/86001718.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001718/d43b93e94a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001718/d43b93e94a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Travelers_Hotel,_East_Liverpool.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Travelers_Hotel,_East_Liverpool.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/71984572","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7835994"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/columbiana-county/travelers-hotel-86001718/"}