{"nrhp_refnum":"96000831","name":"East Toledo Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Front, Platt, Starr, and Spring Grove","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toledo","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.64097367400004,"lon":-83.50941670042667,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","European"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district in East Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, covering about 22 blocks and 24 streets roughly bounded by Front, Platt, Starr and Spring Grove. It includes about 1,016 contributing and 468 noncontributing resources, mostly houses built from the 1850s platting through about 1930.","why_significant":"The form presents the district as a largely intact collection of residential, religious and commercial buildings typical of ethnic and working-class neighborhoods. Much of the area south and west of East Broadway was built before 1900, and the area north and east developed mainly between 1900 and 1930. It also retains work by the prominent Toledo builder Joseph Kesting. The state certified it as locally significant.","narrative":"East Toledo Historic District is a large neighborhood of roughly 22 blocks across 24 streets in Toledo, Ohio. Its oldest part, southwest of East Broadway, grew from the 1854 Yondota Plat and holds most of the earliest homes, while the area northeast of East Broadway was built up mainly between 1900 and 1930. Most buildings are one-and-a-half to two-story wood-frame houses, including rows of modest worker cottages and gable-front dwellings that create even streetscapes. Queen Anne, Italianate, Eastlake, Craftsman, American Four Square and Tudor Revival influences appear among the vernacular forms. Starr Avenue mixes brick commercial buildings with houses, and the district also includes schools, a WPA-built stadium, and churches such as the Gothic-style Sacred Heart, built of limestone for German-speaking Catholics. Builder Joseph Kesting's stone and brick houses on East Broadway are notable. The district was listed as an intact example of an ethnic and working-class neighborhood.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Joseph Kesting (builder of several East Broadway buildings)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements; Ethnic Vernacular; Folk National (gable-front, side-gabled, gambrel)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings remain in residential use; the form notes residing and porch alterations but says the district retains a great deal of integrity. Some Starr Avenue commercial buildings have boarded-up windows.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.512931-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/96000831.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985804","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/east-toledo-historic-district-96000831/"}