{"nrhp_refnum":"87000445","name":"Riverside Cemetery Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3607 W. Twenty-fifth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.455751683000074,"lon":-81.70002618299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-03-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story stone cemetery office building at the entrance to Riverside Cemetery, 3607 West 25th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, built in 1896 to designs by architect E.O. Hopkinson and landscape architect Schwaegerl.","why_significant":"The building is a rare late nineteenth-century example of cemetery architecture in Cleveland, with exuberant and finely detailed Chateauesque and Romanesque features. It was designed to enhance the picturesque character of the cemetery and acts as a gatehouse at its entrance. It is also described as probably the most significant surviving work of Cleveland architect Charles Hopkinson.","narrative":"Standing at the entrance to Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland, this stone building was erected in 1896 as the cemetery office. The cemetery opened in 1876 on 102 acres of the former Brainard farm. The one-story building is built of red sandstone, a rare material, and has a hip roof of red tile, a conical-roofed round tower, pinnacled dormers and pointed hoodmoldings with fleur-de-lis finials. Stone buttresses, round and segmental arches and its massive form recall the Romanesque. Inside, the rooms are richly panelled in oak. Designed by Charles Hopkinson, a Cleveland architect known for public school buildings, it is probably his most significant surviving work. It was planned to add to the picturesque quality of the cemetery and to serve as offices and meeting space, while also working visually as a grand gateway. Cleveland has earlier Gothic Revival cemetery gatehouses, but no later ones as exuberant or finely detailed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Hopkinson, E.O.; Schwaegerl, landscape architects; builder unknown","architectural_style":"Chateauesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior condition listed as good; interior condition unknown. Still used as the cemetery office.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.896096-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/87000445.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000445/c221d2e1be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000445/c221d2e1be-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cricchetti","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riverside_Cemetery_Building_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Cricchetti</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riverside_Cemetery_Building_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71984608","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Cemetery_Gatehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28153610"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/riverside-cemetery-building-87000445/"}