{"nrhp_refnum":"86003503","name":"Panek Block","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3154 E. Fourty-ninth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.47275517800006,"lon":-81.65781252699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-12-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story masonry commercial and apartment building at 3154 East 49th Street in Cleveland's Broadway neighborhood, built in 1905 for saloon keeper John Panek. It measures roughly sixty by eighty feet and stands at an intersection with Broadway Avenue.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an architecturally significant example of turn-of-the-century neighborhood commercial architecture, with a richly decorated Gothic and Romanesque facade. It retains an exceptional degree of exterior and interior integrity. Its interior skylit light court with an ornate oak stairway is described as unique among listed Cleveland neighborhood commercial buildings.","narrative":"Built in 1905 at 3154 East 49th Street in Cleveland, the Panek Block is a three-story brick and sandstone building that combines storefronts below with apartments above. John Panek, who ran a saloon on the site, took out the building permit that May. The facade mixes Gothic and Romanesque motifs, including Corinthian columns at street level, a pressed-metal bay window, label lintels, a crenelated parapet and rooftop pinnacles. Inside, a stairway leads to a skylit light court spanning the upper floors, with an oak staircase and eight apartments grouped around it. The nomination says no other listed neighborhood commercial building in Cleveland has such a feature. The storefronts, facade and interiors remain largely unaltered. The building served a Broadway neighborhood shaped by nearby steel and petroleum industries and its Eastern European workforce. As many similar commercial buildings were demolished, it now stands as one of the few surviving examples with this level of monumentality. It has been empty for several years, and restoration has been planned.","period_of_significance":"1905","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Medieval Revival, combining Gothic and Romanesque forms","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as having stood empty for several years and acquired by a neighborhood non-profit organization planning restoration with ground-floor businesses and upper-floor apartments.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.953103-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/86003503.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003503/e1c3562dc8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003503/e1c3562dc8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panek_Block.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panek_Block.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987506","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137707932"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/panek-block-86003503/"}