Caxton Building

Caxton Building
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General information
Status	Completed
Location	Cleveland, Ohio, US, 812 Huron Road
Coordinates	41°29′53.8″N 81°41′9.9″W / 41.498278°N 81.686083°W / 41.498278; -81.686083
Completed	1903
Website
www.caxtoncleveland.com

The Caxton Building is a historic building completed in 1903 in Cleveland, Ohio, US.¹ It was designed by Frank Seymour Barnum's F. S. Barnum & Co architectural firm. The 8-story steel-frame office building was constructed for the Caxton Building Company and its president Ambrose Swasey. It housed graphic arts and printing businesses, and was named after William Caxton, a British printer in the 15th century.²

The main entrance to the building is a Romanesque architecture style terra cotta archway. It includes intricate organic cartouches in the style popularized by American architect Louis Sullivan, as well as column capitals accenting its buff-colored masonry.³ Its ground floor retail frontage has included restaurants and cafes.²

The building was designed to accommodate heavy printing presses. In 1905, it housed Alfred Cahen's business which became the World Publishing Company.² Through 1906, the Gospel News Company published the Union Gospel News in the Caxton Building.⁴

The Caxton Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October, 1973.³ It was declared a Cleveland landmark in 1976. The building underwent restorations in the 1990s.²