Nomination for Commercial Building

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OMB NO. 1024-0018 EXP. 12/31/84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms and/or common 2. Location _ not for publication city, town - vicinity of code 113 _ district - public X unoccupied - agriculture .museum X building(s) X private X commercial -park _ structure - work in progress . private residence . religious . object - in process - yes: unrestricted . scientific . other: 4. Owner of Property state Ohio 45402 5. Location of Legal Description - - yes state Ohio 43211 both Category date code government Accessible transportation entertainment educational state Ownership site Status Dayton industrial being considered Inventory-Nomination Form Public Acquisition Ohio City Wide Development Corporation Present Use 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys military Type all entries-complete applicable sections date entered 1. Name National Register of Historic Places 3. Classification city, town Dayton has this property been determined eligible? For NPS use only NPS Form 10-900 street &number 44 South Ludlow Street received NOV 21982 _ county - street & number 4 West Fourth Street street & number _ federal X state - _ local courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. The Montgomery County Recorder's Office Columbus historic Commercial Building (7-81) 451 West Third Street 7. Description _ excellent X original site _ moved XX fair composition; a two story ashlar base, a seven story brick shaft and a one story elaborately detailed crown. support a console table.

Sculptured in relief, on the upper end of the panel, is a and dart bed mold, dentils, a band of leaf and dart on the corona and a row of light unexposed Condition building are in stylized domestic produce.The console table has foliated bands on have been destroyed by insensitive renovation.The remainder of the exterior is the cornice.A dentiled frieze over the door has leaf and dart molding, garlands and sculptured decoration on ashlar over each pier and mullioned windows in the intervals.

pineapple pendent.A band of fretwork caps the frieze.The metal cornice has an egg rosettes.Around the door is a bold chaplet of sculptured fruit and banderol.The capitals.The metal drip is decorated with a Vitruvian scroll that has a light The base has ashlar pilasters with store fronts at street level and Chicago windows the Kuhn's Building and the Conover Building; all of which are on the National Register. faced with a tablet bearing a vertical festoon crowned by a rosette. socket in each volute. Above the drip is a mock parapet with panels and posts each The decoration in deep relief is a garland over a festoon that rests on a tablet with Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance

Description of the property

Check one The crowning story is an elaborately decorated ashlar entrablature.In each bay the Xaltered north bay of the Ludlow Street facade.The store fronts and the interior - deteriorated . unaltered -good a tablet inscribed "COMMERCIAL". doors are an aluminum renovation. dripping festoon supporting a coquillage. All of the festoons and garlands on the across the street from the Dayton Daily News Building; a block from the Old Court House, date ruins The main entrance has a fully decorated surround.Paneled pilasters sit on a base and pineapple pendant and two guttae graces the top of each pier.

The Commercial Building is a ten story rectangular "skyscraper" using very tall The design is a three part eclectic renaissance the triglyph, dentils and a row of light sockets on the taenia.The frieze has The jams and soffit have bands of ornament with architrave has a lion mask over the pier and at the terminals a female mask framed in complete as built in fair condition.T sockets on the cymatium. The parapet has console tables between the posts. _ conservation .law _ agriculture X economics - sculpture _ education - social/ _engineering .music - industry .invention - other (specify) Builder/Architect Peters, Burns & Pretzinger of the historic flavor of the downtown, especially in relation to the adjacent Dayton Andrews, who sojourned in Dayton for a few years between Chicago and New York, is designed the building for Adam Schantz, Jr. Adam Schantz, Jr.

was pushing the development of Ludlow Street. Charlotte Reeve plans are dated October 1908. 1500-1599 communications humanitarian theater Period science military Arcade. Specific dates comparable for significant work at the turn of the twentieth century.Pretzinger railroad station.Mr.Schantz realized its strategic situation for mercantile above the skyline as one of only five high rise buildings to stand in Dayton. step in the continued renaissance of Dayton's core.

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Significance This must have been one of the very last commissions for Peters, Burns and Pretzinger. business and whenever he was questioned concerning his extreme activities on Ludlow literature partnership is in fact reported to have been dissolved in 1907.Pretzinger, who was Pretzinger appears to have had almost sole control of the office from 1893. The A syndicate is being formed to revitalize the building which will be an important began his work on Ludlow Street it was considered merely a good dirt street to the Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) Areas of Significance-Check and justify below on his own in 19o8,must have been wrapping up unfinished work for the old firm.The _1700-1799 - art Street he always replied,'You can't lose on Ludlow'."The Commercial Building rose - prehistoric - - archeology-prehistoric _ community planning _ landscape architecture . religion _ archeology-historic X architecture -philosophy - politics/government _ transportation -X 1900 more to change the sky-line of Dayton than any other man. Ludlow Street, now one 1800-1899 1400-1499 1600-1699 commerce art exploration/settlement Albert Pretzinger is historically the foremost native son architect.Only Frank The Commercial Building is a significant work of one of Dayton's most important 9.

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Major Bibliographical References New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1932. A. W. Drury, Rev.,History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County, Vol. II; Chicago-Dayton, S. J. Clarke Publishing, 1909. Quadrangle scale 1:24,000 - state 11. Form Prepared By date 14 May 82 The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: - local _ national 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 State Historic Preservation Officer signature I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register date county code Northing Easting Bellbrook Attest: name/title Chief of Registration Verbal boundary description and justification UMT References 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification the corner of Ludlow Street east along Fourth Street and 6o' north along Ludlow Street List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries city or town 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property 069 Keeper of the National Register For NPs use only Charlotte Reeve Conover, ed.Dayton and Montgomery County: Resource and People, Vol. III; Ohio 45305 That part of lot no. 177 of the city of Dayton continuous lot number that is 50.3' from telephone 513/434-6918 Zone Bntered in the Fed. Reg. Date: Federal Agency:- Recom. / Criteria Discipline .substantive reasons discussad balow 1. Name 4. Owner of Property - original site . ruins Location Entered in the alterations/integrity clarity Date summary paragraph 3. Classification Montgomery County Working No. nomination by person or local government RETURN 6.

Representation in Existing Surveys 5. Location of Legal Description Action: resubmission 7. Description Commercial Building owner objection boundary selection completeness soe continuation sheet dational Park Sorvico Check one - technical corrections cited below - unaitered EVALUATION / RETURN SHEET REJECT OHIO Substantive NATIONAL REGISTER OF NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES appeal .Nomination returned for: Reviewer good 2.1.83 Specific dates Builder Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) justification of exception 11. Form Prepared By The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: clarity context checked completeness Signed Maps Date Other Photographs applicable criteria relating significance to summary paragraph 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification the resource justification of areas 10.

Geographical Data relationship of integrity State Historic Preservation Officer signature 8. Significance 9. Major Bibliographical References UMT Reterences Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name . local Phone: 202 272-3504 this nomination may be directed tol Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Verbal boundary description and justification national Areas ef Signlficance-Chock and justity below titie 16 740450 4404470 Loren S. Gannon, Jr. May '82 southwest #1 Perspective from the COMMERCIAL BUILDING DAYION, OHIO 16 740450 4404470 Loren S. Gannon, Jr. May '82 #2 South facade, east side Dayton Daily News Building from the southeast and relations to Arcade and COMMERCIAL BUILDING BUIL DING COMMERCIAL SSWALK Loren S. Gannon, Jr.

May '82 side COMMERCIAL BUILDING 16 140450 L404470 #3 West facade and north DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO-MONTGOMERY CO 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) DAYTON NORTH QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES October 26, 1982 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief All the appropriate notification procedures have been followed for the new St. John's Lutheran Church St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church St. Henry Roman Catholic Church Serquet, Emanuel and Frederick Farm Valley Dale Ballroom Please let me know if you have any questions. W. Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer WRL: BP: dd X.c: Regional Coordinators (5) Montgomery Sincerely Hamilton Noble Cuyahoga Columbiana County Miami Franklin Encl.

Delaware Stark New Submissions Muskingum REGISTER NATIONAL Dear Carol: Schlee-Kemmler Building Ohio Historic Preservation Office Department of Registration National Register of Historic Places Sandusky Street Historic District Enclosed are twelve new National Register nominations and two resubmissions. Commercial Building African Jackson Cemetery Capital University Historic District Theodore Krumberg Building The Salem China Company Eight Black History Resources in Cleveland Great Southern Hotel and Theatre 440 G Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 Ohio Historical Center 1-71&17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-1500