{"nrhp_refnum":"90001496","name":"Venice Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8401--8417 Euclid Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50399541100006,"lon":-81.62841313599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-10-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story-and-basement commercial and residential building at 8401-17 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, built in 1922-23 for Frank N. Riley and designed by architect J. Milton Dyer after the Palazzo Ducale in Venice.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion C as an imaginative but little-known work of Cleveland architect J. Milton Dyer and as a unique example of Italian Renaissance Revival style in Cleveland. It won a Cleveland Chamber of Commerce medal as the best apartment house building erected in 1923. The exterior retains the essential features of Dyer's original design despite interior vandalism.","narrative":"Modeled on the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, this four-story building at 8401-17 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland was constructed in 1922-23 with eight ground-level stores and 24 small apartments above. Cleveland architect J. Milton Dyer designed it for Frank N. Riley, an insurance and real estate executive. Brown brick walls, art-stone ornament, an arcade with crocket capitals, roundels with quatrefoils and a relief of the Lion of St. Mark at the entrance give it a Venetian character. It is the only apartment house known to have been designed by Dyer and a unique example of Italian Renaissance Revival style in the city. The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce awarded it a medal as the best apartment house erected in 1923. The neighborhood declined after the 1960s, and tenants were ordered out in 1983. The building has been vacant since, and its interior is badly vandalized, though the exterior retains the essential features of Dyer's design. A local housing group plans rehabilitation.","period_of_significance":"1922-1923","architect_builder":"Dyer, J. Milton; Sam W. Emerson Co.","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Vacant and vandalized, with the interior extensively vandalized; it retains its essential exterior features and is slated for rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.426528-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/90001496.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987419","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/venice-building-90001496/"}