{"nrhp_refnum":"87001195","name":"Hotel Courtland","other_names":["St. Francis Hotel","Stark County Office Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"209 W. Tuscarawas Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Canton","county":"Stark County","state":"OH","lat":40.79904931100003,"lon":-81.37584845499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hotel Courtland is a seven-story steel-frame and brick former hotel at 209 W. Tuscarawas Ave. in downtown Canton, Stark County, Ohio, built in 1905 and designed by Guy Tilden.","why_significant":"The building is presented as the best surviving example of Guy Tilden's commercial work and reflects his shift from medieval designs to classical revival styles. It was also the social center of Canton until the Onesto Hotel opened in 1930. The reviewer called it a major local example within the Tilden theme.","narrative":"Hotel Courtland is a seven-story brick and steel-frame building at 209 W. Tuscarawas Avenue in Canton's central business district, next to the courthouse. Built in 1905 as a hotel, it was designed by Guy Tilden, described as Canton's foremost architect. Its design draws on 16th-century Roman palaces, with stone on the first two floors, round arches above the central windows, a classical cornice and a recessed balcony with paired Ionic columns above the entrance. The roofline balustrade was removed and a metal canopy added, but the exterior is otherwise intact. Inside, the lower floors were heavily altered, though marble stairways, wainscoting and brass rails remain. The hotel was Canton's social center until the Onesto Hotel opened in 1930, became the St. Francis around 1948, and has housed Stark County offices since 1965-66. It is considered the best surviving Tilden commercial building and a key example of his move toward classical styles. Its interior is in poor condition, though it appears structurally sound.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Guy Tilden (architect); builder unknown","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as county office building since 1965-66; interior condition poor, exterior fair, structurally sound; listed as endangered by possible demolition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.201044-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/87001195.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001195/4ca1f61524-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001195/4ca1f61524-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Courtland,_209_W._Tuscarawas_Ave.,_Canton,_OH_7-23-2010_1-05-00_PM.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</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:Hotel_Courtland,_209_W._Tuscarawas_Ave.,_Canton,_OH_7-23-2010_1-05-00_PM.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986196","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Courtland","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5911412"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/stark-county/hotel-courtland-87001195/"}