{"nrhp_refnum":"98001179","name":"Hillcrest Hotel","other_names":["Hillcrest Arms Apartment Hotel","Luc-441-8"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1603 Madison Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toledo","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.65528027700003,"lon":-83.54723022999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nine-story, U-shaped apartment hotel at 1603 Madison Avenue at Sixteenth Street in the Uptown area near downtown Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, built in 1929 and designed by Toledo architect Alfred A. Hahn, Sr.","why_significant":"The surviving text emphasizes the building's architecture: a transition between Second Renaissance Revival and Mediterranean/Spanish Revival styles, described as arguably Toledo's best and largest example of the Mediterranean style. It was also a luxurious, fireproof apartment hotel with an integrated 150-car garage and many original materials and fixtures. The truncated text does not include the full Section 8 statement, so the stated criteria and period are not available.","narrative":"Completed in 1929 at Madison Avenue and Sixteenth Street in Toledo, this nine-story apartment hotel was designed by local architect Alfred A. Hahn, Sr. Its U-shaped, reinforced concrete frame is faced in brick and terra cotta, with green tile-roofed corner pavilions, bronze torch finials and a roofline balustrade. The design blends Second Renaissance Revival massing with Mediterranean Revival detail, and the form describes it as arguably Toledo's best and largest example of the Mediterranean style. Original steel casement windows, ornamental terra cotta from the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company and a 150-car interior garage survive. The building served both permanent and transient residents with compact wired kitchens, door beds and a large steam heating system. Interiors, including the lobby and dining rooms, were altered over time, and a 1994 fire damaged the main dining room. The property is listed as vacant, and a 1998 city appropriation for renovation is recorded.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Alfred A. Hahn, Sr. (architect)","architectural_style":"20th Century Revival / Mediterranean Revival; 20th Century Revival / Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed under current function as vacant / not in use; interior heavily altered by renovations and damaged by a 1994 fire; the city appropriated money for renovation in 1998.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.726459-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/98001179.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001179/89c7bced7c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001179/89c7bced7c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hillcrest_Hotel,_Toledo.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hillcrest_Hotel,_Toledo.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100009042","name":"Uptown Toledo Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/uptown-toledo-historic-district-100009042/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989923","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcrest_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5762832"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/hillcrest-hotel-98001179/"}