Nomination for Dayton Daily News Building

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev.

10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE JUN 2 6 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOV 3 0 1978 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Third- Charles Whalen - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE DISTRICT PUBLIC -WORK IN PROGRESS _PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION -IN PROCESS _YES: RESTRICTED X YES: UNRESTRICTED OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY Ohio 45402 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION 451 West Third Street REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 1 June 1968 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS OBJECT 113 CODE LOCATION Dayton DATE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL Montgomery AGRICULTURE ACCESSIBLE HISTORIC CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION RECEIVED TITLE STATE TRANSPORTATION 039 COMMERCIAL MILITARY INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM STRUCTURE GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Dayton Newspapers Inc.

SCIENTIFIC PARK NAME SITE STATUS Ohio XBUILDING(S) Montgomery County Historical Society Dayton Newspapers Building _BEING CONSIDERED COURTHOUSE. Montgomery County LANDMARK Committee Report _ENTERTAINMENT Fourth and Ludlow Streets - UNOCCUPIED Dayton Daily News Building XPRIVATE -RELIGIOUS FOR NPS USE ONLY -BOTH REGISTRY oF MRtgomery County Recorders Office _MOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

DAYTON DAILY NEWS BUILDING historic qualitiés of this building. The three-bay facade has a Roman Corinthian colonnade of attached-columns. painted wood curtain wall has an elaboration of panels, interrupted cornices and cyma recta with lion masks, dentiles, decorated bed molding, acanthus scroll CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED DESCRIPTION FAIR cornucopia supporters. CHECK ONE surrounded by an elaborate stone frontispiece of fluted Doric columns supporting The central tabernacle entrance breaks the high foundation.There is an arched a broken cornice segmental pediment which encompasses a decorative cartouche with panel-faced pilasters which give a very busy effect.

frame and foliated cornice and panels in wood above the door.The doorway is fascia.The parapet has an interrupted laurel torus molding below the cap and colonnade and the voids are Chicago windows with the same wood curtain wall The central bay over the doorway advances slightly and has four single-light A four-bay press room addition is similar in detail;however the entabulature The Dayton Daily News Building isa three-story rectangular Beaux Arts style XUNALTERED the north side and rear are masked by additions.The north addition and the stone doorway with intrados of decorated panels;double doors in an architrave building standing ona high foundation in the commercial core ofDayton.The The six bays on the south side have Corinthian pilasters in lieu of the the right bay. of a continuous urban streetscape which neither detract from nor add to the antefixes at each post.

YORIGINAL SITE - GOOD The elaborate Roman Corinthian entabulature has a flabelliform ornamented facade facing east is on Ludlow Street; the south side is on Fourth Street; and found on the facade. Each bay has an attic window in tne frieze. is reduced to a cornice, the windows are enlarged and a truck entrance is in RUINS second range adds lights to the high-ceilinged ground floor.The dull red- second addition (under construction) to the rear are in effect adjacent buildings DATE. XEXCELLENTAT AREAS OF

Statement of significance

1922 and designed by the same firm. Born in nearby Butler County, Cox became the editor and publisher of The Dayton Albert A. Pretzinger, the architect, was Dayton-born and Dayton-trained. Reibold Building designed by Albert A. Pretzinger. 1800-1899 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 1400-1499 INVENTION ART LAW ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE PERIOD THEATER INDUSTRY SIGNIFICANCE PHILOSOPHY MILITARY SCIENCE XITERATURE XARCHITECTURE X1900- MUSIC _PREHISTORIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT XCOMMUNICATIONS _TRANSPORTATION XPOLITICS/GOVERNMENT recognize. This is Cox's autobiographical account, which is quite genteel.The story XCOMMERCE culminated in 1920 with his nomination as the Democratic Party candidate for _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN President of the United States.

as I have it from old newspaper hands is that Cox was madder than a wet hen and we can't accommodate you." Musselman,listed as draftsman on this project in 1910,became a partner.The Dayton Newspapers was the creation of James Middleton firm of Peters and Burns with whom he became a partner in1893.Edward P. gruffly told his architect to"build me a damn bank." - RELIGION -ECONOMICS ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC COMMUNITY PLANNING SPECIFIC DATES 1910, 1922 building, Valentine Winters declined, saying, "Why, I didn't think you were plant. It was to symbolize the solid institution, which the public was late to firm still exists as Pretzinger and Pretzinger, the third generation, in the was completed in 1910. The press building addition to the rear was ådded in When Mr.

Cox approached Winters Bank for a loan to build a new newspaper "It was that very thing which prompted us [Cox] to erect a very attractive building, classic_ in-its features, looking more like a bank than a newspaper This excellent Beaux Arts classic building designed by Albert A.Pretzinger Daily News in 1898.After serving as a member of Congress he was elected in He apprenticed with Leon Beaver and developed his skills in the well-known local 1912 to the first of three terms as governor of Ohio.Cox's career in politics

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE 15 December 1977 STREET & NUMBER CITY OR TOWN Ohio 45402 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL X As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

E SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER 513-228-6271 CODE COUNTY DATE Dayton ORGANIZATION NORTHING TELEPHONE The nominated property is at the northwest corner of Ludlow and Fourth Street, Montgomery County Historical Society The Old Courthouse and consists of the south part of Lot #l76 in the Third Ward of Dayton.

ATTEST: ( ZONE ZONE EASTING SHPO Photos Inventory - BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER OTHER Entered ARCHEOLOGIST TECHNICAL HAER CONTROL Send-back Maps Re-submit Property Review State Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up 2-6-79 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 78002144 11.20.78 8.25.78 OK 6.27.78 HISTORIAN INT:2106-74 WAY ONE DAYTON DAILY December 1977 JUN 2 6 1978 #1 Facade and south side from the southeast NOV 3 0 1978 Loren Gannon Regional Office 5HA DAYTON DAILY NEWS BUILDING Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio December 1977 JUN 2 6 1978 NOV 3 0 1978 southwest #3 Fourth Street view from the DAYTON DAILY NEWS BUILDING Loren Gannon Regional Office 5HA Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio LEFT LANE TURN LEFT MUST JUN 2 6 1978 NOV 3 0 1978 environment #3 Building from southeast showing December 1977 Regional Office 5HA Dayton, Ohio DAYTON NEWSPAPERS BUILDING Loren Gannon -NOV 3 O 1978 DAYTON NORTH QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DAYTON NORTH, OHIO ROAD CLASSIFICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE OHIO Stanbery, Edwin, Office Riley, Calvin E., House Richland County Dr.

Thomas H. Smith Interstat 71 at 17th Avenue Byers/bjr Location Dayton Shelby 12/14/78 Lorain County Name Wooster Coshocton County Director Honorable Tennyson Guyer Honorable Ralph Regula Celina Date Entered Montgomery County Honorable Charles W. Whalen Oberlin Wayne County West Lafayette vicinity Honorable Donald J. Pease Christ Episcopal Church Dayton Daily News Building Also Notified Licking County State Historic Preservation Officer Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Wooster Public Square Historic District Most Pure Heart of Mary Church ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Granville vicinity Mercer County Honorable John M. Ashbrook The Ohio Historical Society Woodland Cemetery Gateway, Chapel, and Office Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr.

Ferguson, Andrew, House NOV 3 0 1978 OHIO city / town X STATE 12) SOURCE of NOMINATION - LOCAL - deteriorated Doriginal site 17 features: 2O SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT - 3 Omoved 9C NOT INTACT-O Ounexposed Dreconstructed - Unknown Ounexcavated ZO NOT APPLICABLE - 9 - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Onof 2) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : -RECREATION -28 OCLAIMS: explain -ENGINEERING -11 "first'O -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - COMMERCE-6 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION-22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-7 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' D - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY -13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL -30 'only' D - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 functions @arch itectural style(s): -landseape architect / garden designer: 1 interior decorator: EVENTS : _date.

IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE Montgomery Dayton 113 ASSOCIATION PERSONAL: ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: FEDERAL CURRENTLY: builder/contractor: Dexcellent historic events: Dayton Daily News Building Dayton Newspapers Building WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: PRIVATE ORGANIZATION master builder: artist: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET major alterations: URBAN PLANNING-31 ADMINISTRATOR: 4th and Ludlow Sts. county code: Loren S. Daltered Oruins 3 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: Gannon, Jr. SO UNKNOWN-6 - YES -Unrestricted SAVED? DYES -LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 -POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 ETHNIC CONDITION GROUP engineer: artisan: vicinity of reviewers initials Dgood Dfair dates of initial construction: as it appears on federal register: CONGRESS.DISTRICT 3rd BACCESS