{"nrhp_refnum":"88000678","name":"East 89th Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also: Bell, Dr. James, House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"E. Eighty-ninth St. roughly between Chester and Hough Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50756909900008,"lon":-81.62500000812192,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of thirty-two buildings along East 89th Street between Chester and Hough Avenues on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, with houses dating from about 1875 to 1912.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be an important surviving collection of late 19th and early 20th century residential architecture in Cleveland. The street developed near Euclid Avenue and attracted wealthy industrialists, and it remains the most intact of the once-wealthy streets in the Hough neighborhood. It includes Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and other styles, with works by several noted architects.","narrative":"East 89th Street, running between Chester and Hough Avenues on Cleveland's east side, holds thirty-two buildings, mostly large frame houses of two and a half stories set back about fifteen feet on generous lots. The earliest, an Italianate house of about 1875, was the first built on the street, and construction continued into 1912. Its proximity to Euclid Avenue made it a desirable address, and several business leaders lived here, including the president of the National Refining Company and a Chamber of Commerce president. The street displays Queen Anne turrets and wraparound porches, Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial Revival designs, a Richardsonian Romanesque brick house, and two apartment buildings, one Neoclassical and one with Tudor Revival elements. Architects included Coburn and Barnum and Rogers, MacFarlane of Detroit. Later decades brought boarding houses and population decline in the Hough area, yet this street remains the most intact of the neighborhood's once-wealthy streets, which is the basis for its listing for architecture.","period_of_significance":"1870s-1912","architect_builder":"various; including Coburn and Barnum (Lamprecht House), Rogers, MacFarlane of Detroit (Dyer House), Fredrick Baird (Bolton Apartments), George Hardway (Dr. James Bell House)","architectural_style":"Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"All thirty-two resources are contributing and the district has no intrusions; the buildings are historically and currently single dwellings, along with two apartment buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.140095-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/88000678.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000678/f71e2ce79d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000678/f71e2ce79d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User:Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_89th_Street_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_89th_Street_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987430","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85157426"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/east-89th-street-historic-district-88000678/"}