East Fifth Street Historic District

East Fifth Street is the present-day main commercial axis of East Liverpool, Ohio, and this district preserves a 16-building stretch of it between Market Street and Broadway. Most of the brick buildings, two to five stories tall, went up in the decades around 1900, many replacing structures lost in major downtown fires, including one in 1905 on the north side of the street. They date from the years when the pottery industry brought national prominence and rapid population growth to the city. Decorative brickwork appears on the Foutts Block, the McCrory Building and Annex, and the Golding Block. Finely detailed terra cotta marks several facades, including one with a Gothic Revival pointed-arch motif. Two Neo-Classical Revival bank buildings, the 1923 First National Bank and Potter's Bank & Trust, retain their two-story lobbies. Storefronts have often been altered, but scale, materials and period character remain. The district and The Diamond are described as the city's most cohesive commercial groupings.