Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.79001805- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 4,119 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 4,119 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Alcazar Hotel between 1850 and
1975: 3,681 Animalia, 218 Fungi, 139 Plantae, 74 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Alcazar Hotel: 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cleveland Heights, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report between 1996 and 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
2,196 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
yellow brick with details in a dull pink cement, which unfortunately was used in the Alcazar. In the center of the lounge is an hexagonal pool with a small sculptured fountain, contained in a tile border and with crude Medieval fireplace with a cartouche flanked by lion-headed dragons, a with the Spanish style. Altered over the years, the room has recently been remodeled again, this time closer to the spirit of the original. The private dining room has been altered, as has the former library lounge. Both are undergoing redecoration, following such clues as remain. There are no CONDITION UNALTERED CHECK ONE accessory kitchen which is undergoing restoration.
in bold squared-off sculptured frames.A third wall carries a massive The more obvious Moorish characteristics are in the interior, mainly shire.The main block of the corner entrance is five stories high, the wings four.One corridor runs around the entire building with apartments on either The Alcazar is an apartment hotel in a Spanish-Moorish eclectic have kitchenettes.The original plan had 175 apartments of one to six rooms. circular fountain further described in paragraph 8. records of the original interiors.On the fifth floor is a ballroom with reception desk is framed in wrought iron and the glass doors of the entrance geometric tiles scattered on the floor of the pool. side, the whole enclosing a garden patio.
The design of the Alcazar Hotel is, by intention, reminiscent of the complex in St. Augustine, Florida, which includes the Hotels Ponce de Leon and Alcazar, built by Carrere & Hastings for Henry Flagler in the 1880s. hotels, as they were built with money that was originally made in Cleveland influence, there is documentation of direct imitation.
The general vogue for Spanish architecture in the 1920s, of which the Cleveland Heights Alcazar is and on the sides of the main block, by the cloister arcade of the patio, and 1800-1899 1923 1400-1499 1700-1799 ENGINEERING EDUCATION COMMERCE SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SCIENCE THEATER POLITICS/GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTATION AGRICULTURE RELIGION INDUSTRY MILITARY the long verticals of the decorated chimneys flanking the facade.Mr.Kent than Moorish.
XART _CONSERVATION Cleveland architect H.T.Jeffery established the resemblance to the It is significant that greater Cleveland has an Alcazar reminiscent of Flagler's _SCULPTURE _PREHISTORIC the St.Augustine Alcazar.The amusing circular fountain with a tall finial especially around Palm Beach and Miami.West Coast influence does not seem Western Reserve Residences, a Christian Science organization, for use as an early representative, is related to the Florida boom of those years, a private residence hotel. Florida hotels by the pitch of the red tile roofs and the overhanging roofline, when Flagler made his first fortune asa partner of John D.Rockefeller. the locally well-known firm of Fischer and Jirouch. and a dancing school recital and party.
The hotel was recently acquired by as apparent, for it had both a Mission and a Churrigueresque flavor rather -ECONOMICS H.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001805, 21 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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