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In downtown Dayton, Ohio, on October 12th, 2019, the AT&T Building (built in 1930 as the Ohio Bell Building, designed by Schenck & Williams) at the northeast corner of North Perry Street and West 2nd Street.
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What is now Building 13 of Sinclair College predates the current campus by decades (although the institution itself dates back even further). The building at 240 West Fifth Street was built in 1915. According to one source, it is significant “for having housed the manufacturing operations of the United Brethren Publishing House and for representing...
Just down the block from the former press building, the 9-story Holden Hotel also first opened in 1915. At the time it was considered ideally located next to busy Union Station which provided a consistent clientele of “railroad men and salesman passing through the city.” One of the few structures in the vicinity of Union Station to survive to this ...
This church at the NW corner of 4th and Wilkinson was built in 1895 after St. Joseph’s Catholic Church became too crowdedand a new parish was organized. The Romanesque building was designed by Charles Insco Williams and features rock-faced, creamy Dayton limestone, Berea Brownstone and a striking copper dome. The church closed in 1996 but reopened ...
A beautiful example of Art Deco architecture, this 11-story, $2 million building at 2nd and Wilkinson opened in 1931. The structure “is said to rest on a thick concrete slab that floats on an old riverbed of quicksand” (Dalton, Postcard History Series). It was originally known as the Ohio Bell Telephone Building and today is called the AT&T Buildin...
Directly adjacent to the AT&T Building is this Gothic Revival church erected in 1926. In 1919, First Presbyterian and Third Street Presbyterian combined into one congregation and took the name of Westminster. The beautiful church features a Te Deum medallion window on the south wall of the Sanctuary that was designed by Tiffany Studios of New York ...
(image source) Next, as we arrive at Monument Ave we encounter two beautiful historic homes next to each other in between Wilkinson and Perry Streets. The twist is that neither of them is in its original location!
The Isaac Pollack house was built in 1876 at 319 West Third Street (which I’ll note still fits our criteria of west of Wilkinson Street). Its identical neighbor was known as the Solomon Rauh house, Pollack and Rauh being business partners in the liquor and wine trade. According to Dayton Unknown, the two men flipped a coin to determine who would li...
This home, built in 1868 at a cost of $17,266.35, was moved a short distance to avoid the threat of demolition similar to the Isaac Pollack house. The Hanitch-Huffman House’s journey was an even shorter one across the street; its original location was 139 West Monument Ave (just to the east of Wilkinson St. but we’ll count it due to its present loc...
This building was built in 1930 by the Ohio Bell Company to house their local offices, operators and telephone switch equipment. Changes to telecommunications technology have rendered much of this building's original purpose unnecessary and concerns about security prevent the phone company from leasing any vacant part of it to another business.
Loren Berry relocated its headquarters in the newly constructed Keith Building in Dayton. By 1931, the seven rooms were crowded, so they leased larger quarters in the Ohio Bell Telephone Building. 1924. The Craven and Berry partnership was dissolved due to Craven’s health, and it became The L.M. Berry and Company.
In the 1920s, it was said to be the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world, and remains today the only example of a Chicago Commercial style skyscraper in Dayton, Ohio. During its early life, it held the general offices of the church, and the United Brethren Publishing House.
The earliest directory consisted of a single sheet headed: “Dayton Bell Telephone Company” and held the names of ten subscribers: the Keifabers, three Phillips’ – T. A., George L., and Charles A.; the American Express Company, the Beckel House, George F. Rohr, J. K. McIntire, William Sander and J. W. Johnston.
Built in 1930, this Art Deco-style building was designed by Schenck and Williams for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company to serve as their offices and main switchboard in Downtown Dayton.
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