Nomination for Dayton Fire Station No. 14

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United States Department of the Interior received JUL 2 4 1980 See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms 1. Name and/or common 2. Location street & number -not for publication city, town _ vicinity of - state _ county . 3. Classification X unoccupied - agriculture _ museum X building(s) _ commercial - park _ work in progress - private residence _ religious in process - yes: unrestricted . scientific .being considered - transportation - military X other: vacant 4. Owner of Property city, town Dayton 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Montgomery County Recorders Office 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys _ yes _federal July, 1979 - local both Dayton Category Accessible government educational structure code date Columbus entertainment industrial Ownership district Public Acquisition private Third site congressional district Status object Ohio Present Use Inventory-Nomination Form Ohio Historic Inventory 1422 N. Main Street at Forest Avenue Type all entries-complete applicable sections Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service City of Dayton For HCRS use only 101 West Third Street has this property been determined elegible? National Register of Historic Places historic Dayton Fire Department, Station #14 depository for survey records Ohio Historical Center FHR-8-300 (11-78) public title Montgomery 039 date entered -excellent _ deteriorated . unaltered - original site _moved X fair Condition date apparatus. changed to metal casement units.

project with boxed-in rafters. The structure is distinguished by seven battered buttresses built of brick with foundation walls are built of coursed, rough-faced ashlar limestone and rise The original tile roof has been replaced with 7. Description Interesting details of the building include splayed, star-shaped vent wood, shed roofed boat house is attached to the south side of the There are three vehicular entries, two in the front (west) elevation and one balcony are 9/9 double hung sash type, as are all windows on north elevation. Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance

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hung windows. Windows on the second story, back elevation have been and southwest corners of the second floor surrounded firepoles, now removed. two gable roofs, one with a north-south axis and the other with an east-west axis, meet in the middle of the structure and have curvilinear, parapeted Check one The south elevation has four of the large 9/9 windows and nine small 4/4 double -ruins All windows have solid, dressed perhaps once windows, near the tops of the north and south gables and a slight- columns of four large third story openings, now boarded over, of the hose drying unexposed The The tower roof was originally window detail is apparent only in the attic because the window is painted over projects from the middle of the south elevation. on the exterior. The north elevation has five bays.

The window-wells are made from great slabs of limestone gable ends with a coved metal weather molding emphasizing the roofline.Thus The round window is divided into eight equal sections by wooden mullions. topped with an ornamental wooden spire. of a buttress centered on the north elevation.Two trap doors in the northwest transom and brick segmental arch is in the south elevation near the front. behind the hose drying tower.A lifeboat was once part of the station's The building's twenty inch thick cornice band extends across the front (west) elevation at the top of the first building.The pole is set into a finely carved limestone support and rises limestone sills and brick, segmental arches. Three front windows inside the Ornately detailed downspouts originally decorated the front elevation.

A low, topped by a semicircular brick arch with a coved metal molding trim.Centered inside the arch is a round window with gauged brick encircling the opening. The old Dayton Fire Station #14 is a rectangular, two story building, dimensions The two,battered octag- two courses, or twenty inches, above ground level to form a water table.The A wide, wooden frieze finely dentiled and molded thick and 59" in the rear elevation. FOR HCRS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Dayton Fire Department, Station # 14, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET Korber, Louis (Captain, Dayton Fire Department, retired). Personal interview. 5 Jan., 1980, Dayton Daily News, January 3, 1975, p. 2. Dayton Journal Herald, May 29, 1961, p. 12. transition.

FHR-8-300A The hose drying tower is entered by basement and first floor interior doors DATE ENTERED fire house at the top of the tower.Many such inscriptions exist, chalked full height of the tower, efficiently drying the suspended hose.It was customary for the firemen to write their names and date of assignment to the (11/78) Chief Musselman. HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE support block and tackles which firemen used to hoist wet hose into drying Since its construction in 19o1,the old firehouse has been one of the main UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The gable roofs have 8"x 1o" ridgepoles and 8"x 8" rafters. on the brick, at the top of Station #14's tower. ITEM NUMBER 9 PAGE 4 landmarks on North Main Street.North Main is a busy thoroughfare running Chronological History of the Dayton Fire Department.

Unpublished typescript compiled by position.The large openings at the top of the tower created a draft which in the first quarter of the twentieth century.The area is in decline and A wood ladder rises to the top of the tower's interior where beams exist to pulled air from the basement and two, small second story tower windows the The interior structural components of old #14 are imposing.Solid wood, 12"x 8" joists span the basement, supported by 1o"x 1o" and 8"x 8" posts. RECEIVED JUL 2 4 1990 8.

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Significance - prehistoric _ conservation _ science _ economics - sculpture .military _ social/ - engineering . industry X politics/government .transportation department, whose earlier chief, Daniel C. Larkin, said in his 1902 annual re- horses, hay, and leather were replaced with the odors of gasoline, oil, and 1901 1800-1899 1600-1699 1500-1599 literature commerce humanitarian communications The education Period music Specific dates paid them.

remains an excellent reminder of the craftsmanship and attention to detail exist for many of the craftsmen who worked on the building and the amounts ing is a fine example of Mission style architecture, as it was interpreted by and know that no department can boast of a better and more satisfactory lot." Areas ofSignificance-Check and justify below But the horses had to go; citizens of Dayton were witness to motor apparatus from the Main and Monument fire house passing the teams of old #14 as both refined in Dayton) and the leather harnesses came down..The mingled smells of port,"I cannot help but add that I am proud of the horses of this _architecture more complicated ways. The last horse-drawn run was made from #14 in 1917 by horses named Hans invention Statement of Significance

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(in one paragraph) 1700-1799art - other (specify) X1900- _law - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - archeology-historic _ agriculture .art - exploration/settlement Builder/Architect Peters, Burns, & Pretzinger 1400-1499 philosophy The building is nominated for both its architecture and history.This build- representative of public buildings in the early twentieth century.Records quick hitch collars (which some evidence suggests were invented or, at least Old Hose Company #14 was the last Dayton fire house to use horse-drawn appara- Blank Book and Publishing Company, 1901-1902. _ state 11.

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Form Prepared By date 16 January, 1980- Ohio 45402 Dayton Easting code county Northing date national Zone name/title Michael Thomas Pekarek List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification telephone 513-228-6271 Verbal boundary description and justification city or town UMT References 9. Major Bibliographical References State Historic Preservation Officer signature ACREAGE NOT VERIFIED I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register Regional Office 5HA, Ohio Historic Chief of Registration The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service.

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 Quadrangle name _Dayton North 10. Geographical Data X_local For HCRS use only UTM NOT VERIFIED "Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 street & number --- Deed#2620. GPO 938 835 Attest: organization Preservation Office 7 North Main Street date 9/24/80 Keeper of the Nationat Begister REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up Entered SEP 27 1080 2.3. 81 OTHER KEEPER CONTROL Inventory HAER Send-back HISTORIAN Re-submit Photos Review Maps Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BRANCH CHIEF Working Number 7,.24 80. 194/ ,ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN ARCHEOLOGIST TECHNICAL ONLY - Míchael T.

Pekarek, photos, 12/28/79 Negs : Regn1.Office SHA, Ohio Hist. Soc. - of south elevation and hose tower. Camera pointed northeast. Photo No. 1//2 Negs:Regnl.Office SHA, Ohio Hist. Soc. - of front (west) elevation. Camera pointed up and SE Photo No. 2 -Michae1 T. Pekarek, photos, 12/28/79 DAYTON FIRE HOUSE NO.14,Dayton, Ohio Michae1 I. Pekarek, photos, 12/28/79 Detail: window-well, lintel, and found- - ation of rear (east) elevation. Camera pointed down and S. Photo No. 4½ DAYTON FIRE HOUSE NO.14,Dayton, Ohio Negs : Regnl.Office 5HA, Ohio Hist. Soc. Ohio NG ONLY TOMER Nichael T. Pekarek, photos, 12/28/79 Negs:Regn1.Office SHA, Ohio Hist. Soc. Photo No. 5/12 Camera pointed south. DAYTON FIRE HOUSE NO 14,Dayton,Ohio -Wichae1 T. Pekarek, photos, 12/28/79 Negs: Regnl. Office SHA, Ohio Hist. Soc. - elevation. Camera pointed east. Photo No. DAYTON FIRE HOUSE No.

14, Dayton Ohio -Photographer unknown, copies: Jan.1980 - Negs:James Parnel1, Dayton Fire Dep. -apparatus and lifeboat. Date unknown. montgomery co. - Camera pointed southeast. Photo No. 137 DAYTON FIRE HOGSE°NO. 14, Dayton, Ohio -Michael T. Pekarek, photos, 12/28/79 Negs: Regnl.Office 5HA, Ohio Hist. Soc. - and part of south elevation and tower Camera pointed northeast. Photo No. 9/z DAYTON FIRE HOUSE NO. 14, Dayton Menlgomery co. DAYTON FIRE HOUSE NO. 14, Dayton, Ohio -Photographer unknown, copies: Jan.1980 - JUL 24 Camera pointed northeast. Photo No. %½ Negs:James Parnell, Dayton Fire Dep. 1909 view of front (west) elevation and horse-drawn apparatus with crew. CLAUDE CLARK LAWERENCE GEET/NGS HARRY FAIR TAKEN 1909 CHARLES LUAFY NO-14 DAYTON FIRE HOUSE NO. 14, Dayton, Ohio -Photographer unknown, copies: Jan.1980 - Camera direction unknown. Photo No.

10/2 Negs:James Parnell, Dayton Fire Dep. -Geetings, and Lukey and two horses. 1909 interior MAR-1940 DAYTON FIRE HOUSÉ NO. 14, Dayton, Ohio -Photographer unknown, copies: Jan,1980 - JUL 2 4 1980 -crew in front of west elevation. 19lo view of horse-drawn apparatus with Negs:James Parnell, Dayton Fire Dep. Camera pointed southeast. Photo No. ly2 LT.BERNARD-ARMST RONG -Photographer unknown, copies: Jan.1980 - Negs: James Parnell, Dayton Fire Dep. Photo No. 122 Camera pointed east -last horses, named Hans Wagner,Ty Cobb.- 1917 view of front (west) elevation and JUL 2 4 DAYTON NORTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DAYTON NORTH, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC SEP 27 1980 UNITED STATES Dayton,Ohio MeClelland, Harry S., House Bossler, Marcus, House Dayton FIre Station lio. 14 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401.

Location Dayton 271980 STATE West Carrollton Zanesville Crawford County Church and Rectory Bucyrus Montgonery County Name Bucyrus Mansoleum Date Entered Schuter Carpenter Shop and House Shelby County Muskingum County Calion Sidney Courthouse Square Historic District Adena Court Apartments ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Brownella Cottage and Grace Episcopal Sidney OHIO Also Notified STATE OHIO SEP 27 1980 Honorable John H. Glenn, Jr. Mr. David Brook The Ohio Historical Society Honorable Clarence E. Miller Honorable Tony P. Hall Columbus, Ohio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Byers Location Name Lisbon vicinity Akron Hostetter Inn Honorable Douglas Applegate Honorable John F. Seiberling Honorable Tennyson Guyer ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered Akron Rural Cemetery Buildings Also Notified Honorable Howard M.

Metzenbaum Honorable John M. Ashbrook State Historic Preservation Officer Interstate 7l at l7th Avenue Columbiana County Sunmit County 10-15-80 -