{"nrhp_refnum":"91000302","name":"Greyhound Bus Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1465 Chester Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.50332867700007,"lon":-81.68208671799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Streamline Moderne bus terminal at 1465 Chester Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, opened March 31, 1946 and designed by William Strudwick Arrasmith.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the best and only true example of Streamline Moderne architecture in Cleveland. It embodies the style's link to transportation and technological optimism, and it represents the peak of Greyhound's streamlined terminal designs. Because it was under 50 years old at nomination, it also met the exception for exceptional importance.","narrative":"Greyhound's bus terminal at 1465 Chester Avenue in downtown Cleveland is a free-standing, three-story building faced in gray Indiana limestone with terra-cotta accents, blue porcelain steel panels and glass block windows. A 66-foot sign tower and a cantilevered marquee shaped like an airplane wing's leading edge mark the entrance. Inside, an open lobby with a curved oak-veneer balcony leads to a sawtooth bus dock that holds 21 buses. Architect William Strudwick Arrasmith designed it, and it opened on March 31, 1946, as the first terminal in Greyhound's postwar expansion. The nomination presents it as Cleveland's best and only pure example of Streamline Moderne, a style tied to cars, planes and trains and meant to project speed and efficiency. Other modern Cleveland buildings of the period were judged to follow different designs. Some original features, including a lobby mural and furniture, have been lost, but the building remains in use as a bus terminal.","period_of_significance":"1948","architect_builder":"William Strudwick Arrasmith","architectural_style":"Moderne: Streamlined Moderne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still operating as a Greyhound/Trailways terminal and continuously used as a Greyhound terminal since 1946; a restaurant occupies one wing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.013785-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/91000302.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000302/42ca8d4fc6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000302/42ca8d4fc6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Colin Rose","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleveland_Greyhound.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Rose</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleveland_Greyhound.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"02000702","name":"Euclid Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/euclid-avenue-historic-district-02000702/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987480","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Bus_Station_(Cleveland)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48817978"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/greyhound-bus-station-91000302/"}