Nomination for Wright Cycle Company--Wright and Wright Printing Offices

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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries - complete applicable sections and or common 22 South Williams Street street & number _ not for publication city, town - vicinity of Ohio (45407) code X state Present Use - public X unoccupied _ agriculture X museum X building(s) X private -park . structure . both X work in progress -educational in process - yes: restricted - government -scientific X yes: unrestricted - transportation 4. Owner of Property Dr. Patrick Nolan-WSU, Archives P. O. Box 633 Wright Brothers Station courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. County Recorder's Office Montgomery Co. Administration Bldg. 451 West Third Street 6. Representation in Existing Surveys X yes has this property been determined eligible?

July 15, 1983 depositary for survey records Dayton Montgomery 039 code date Accessible county Category commercial site local object entertainment Columbus Inventory-Nomination Form Ownership Ohio 5. Location of Legal Description historic Status other: title religious district federal National Register of Historic Places industrial Public Acquisition Dayton (45402) (43211) Wright Cycle Company Shop/Wright and Wright Printing Offices 3. Classification 1. Name private residence 2. Location Wright State University Library date entered Send Correspondence to: Ohio Historic Inventory Aviation Trail Inc. military NPS Form 10-900 For NPS use only received JAN | 6 1986 being considered (3-82) _ excellent x original site X altered X fair Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

Description of the property

residential street, 22 South Williams Street is one block south of the seven blocks west of l 75 along West Third Street, directly across the Great The internationally known black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, a friend of the revitalization of this section of Dayton. Between 1895 and 1897 when the building at 22 South Williams Street housed the section featured one projecting gable on the north side, and a diagonally wood shutters. The first floor facade was a storefront with a stone freize pulleys in the gable end above the door. A set of double doors directly A second stairway directly beneath the one tothe second floor provided access to the basement. Condition unexposed ruins moved 7.

Description Photograph #5).The entire building has been painted white, the shutters have addition was divided into two rooms.One stairway in the southeast corner of in the second floor opened onto a small metal balcony and was presumably used Check one contrasting stone Iintels and sills, and all of the windows had dark painted Wright showlight colored plaster walls with dark wood baseboards.The show-room and workspace.Photographs #2 and 3 taken by Wilbur and Orville and 1897,shows the 22 South Williams Street building at this period in time. Miami River from Dayton's Central Business District.At the turn of the north side of the building also had a frame porch attached to the addition.

have been added to the west end of the north side.According to the Sanborn shows light colored plaster walls with a decorative pattern at the freize The first floor interior of the main section was one large room used asa to move equipment in and out of the second floor by means of a hoist with - unaltered and middle class homes. Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the airplane, and all of their printing offices were within four blocks of the family home. Wright Cycle Company and Wright and Wright Printing, it looked like many other bays long. All of the two over two DHS windows and all of the doors had been removed, and wood siding has been applied to the new first floor facade. lived one block away in the Wright family home at 7 Hawthorn Street with their Wright Brothers, lived seven blocks away at 219 North Summit Street.

The Today the original storefront has been removed and a wall added to form an deteriorated good date rooms of varying size.Photograph #4 of the second floor printing office The two story rectangular brick building had a full basement and a one story wooden addition on the rear.The hipped wood shingled roof of the main opening of the Dunbar House as a museum was one of the first steps toward the beneath the second floor door probably served as a freight entrance.The twentieth century this neighborhood was a thriving community of small shops local shops and houses.(Photograph #1)taken by Orville Wright between 1895 open front porch with the stone window piers serving as columns (see also covered with wood shingles.The building was three bays wide and six OMB NO.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Wright Cycle Company Shop, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio Item number maps of 1897 with corrections to 1911, the bay windows had been added and the roll roofing.

The first floor interior was divided into five rooms and a and the addition of a shower stall were the only changes made to the second the basement created on the north side of the building just west of the bay In its present condition, the building maintains sufficient integrity through The building at 22 South Williams Street is owned by Aviation Trail Inc., a private non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Dayton's aviation heritage through the preservation of sites relating to Dayton's role in the of Gaede, Serne, & Zofcin Architects Inc., to draft a set of plans for the This architectural firm specializes in the restoration, renovation, and South Williams Street involve the removal of the paint with chemicals and the two first floor windows which were added after 1897 will be bricked in to to provide handicapped access.

The exterior basement door will be filled in for the removal of the interior walls to restore the original storefront and ceiling/second story floor will be reconstructed and finished to match the surrounding ceiling/scheduled to begin in July or August of this year. Once this work is completed Aviation Trail Inc. will begin making plans for the National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form the Wright and Wright Printing offices. NPS Form 10-900-a Page 2 Expires 10-31-87 storefront removed by 1911. In addition the roof has been covered with tin stairway from the front porch to the second floor was added. This stairway floor interior. An outside stairway to the basement was dug and a door into is sufficient documentation to restore features. development of aviation. Aviation Trail Inc.

commissioned the Cleveland firm original doorways will be reconstructed with a new concrete step outside the first floor door and a small metal balcony outside the second floor door. match the surrounding wall. A concrete ramp will be added to the rear porch and all of the windows will receive new wood shutters. The roof will be safety codes. The plans for the interior restoration of the first floor call workroom.

The front stairway will be removed also, and the first floor restoration of the building at 1060 West Third Street, which also once housed Continuation sheet DESCRIPTION elements of its appearance during the period that the Wright Brothers occupied which preserves the building's historical integrity but meets modern fire and received (3-82) date entered For NPS use only Areas of Significance - Check and justify below landscape architecture -military - music The politics government _ transportation X invention other (specify) Statement of

Statement of significance

(in one paragraph) meets criteria #A and #B for listing in the National Register of Historic owned and operated by Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Wright Brothers became building at 22 South Williams Street, Wilbur and Orville Wright first became experimenting with kites and gliders, which eventually led them to develop a Wilbur and Orville moved their bicycle shop into the building at 22 South introduced its own brands of bicycles, the "Van Cleve" and the "St.

Clair", Wright designed and built a single cylinder gas engine to power bicycle Brothers used their experience of working with chain drives on bicycles when and later airplanes, were crafted with the same tools and machinery used to As part of Wright and Wright Printing, which Wilbur and Orville Wright operated out of the second floor of 22 South Williams Street, the Wrights October 24, 1894 to April_17, 1896.2 All of the printing was done on a press The building at 22 South William Street was the third of five locations of the was demolished during a 1927 expansion of the company. The second Wright Brothers bicycle shop, located at 1034 West Third Street, was torn down in the served as a downtown branch of the 22 South Williams Street Shop.

1700-1799 1400-1499 1600-1699 communications 1500-1599 commerce philosophy industry conservation engineering archeology-prehistoric economics humanitarian literature science exploration/settlement education sculpture X_1800-1899 law _communityplanning 8. Significance build bicycles. _archeology-historic well as add.4 -agriculture social/ they designed the chain drive for the propellers on their aircraft. prehistoric .architecture 1930s to make room for a two story commercial building,which was in turn 1900- .. religion The Wright Cycle Company Shop at 22 South Williams Street in Dayton, Ohio, Places. Between 1895 and 1897 the 22 South Williams Street building housed seriously interested in solving the problems of powered flight, and began motorized aircraft. Furthermore this building is the only one of five documented Wright Cycle Company Shops left in the City of Dayton.

Williams Street in 1895. In the Spring of 1896 the Wright Cycle Company which were made and sold on the premises. To aid them in their work Wilbur pudl ishea Their own newspaper- Ihe weekly snap Shots was a neighborhood Wright Cycle Company, and the third of three location of wright and wright associated with the Wright Cycle Company was 23 West Second Street. This shop Builder Architect Charles P. Garman -- builder the Wright Cycle Company and Wright and Wright Printing, both of which were 1895-97 art Period Specific dates manufacturing machinery.l This engine was similar in design to the four Williams' Dayton City Directory, 1884-1914. Quadrangle name Dayton North Quadrangle scale1:, 24000 UT M References Verbal boundary description and justification covers approximately 7,400 square feet. List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries State John A.

Brannick Wright State University Graduate Assistant Aviation Trail Inc. date May 23, 1985 street & number city or town The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated State Historic Preservation Officer signature For NPS use only Chief of Registration U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1983 0 - 419-311 (Continued) date county organization Northing code Easting Attest: name/title Acreage of nominated property approximately 1/6 acre 9.

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

Major Bibliographical References Zone national local Ohio 11. Form Prepared By 10. Geographical Data Primary Sources: 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification Kettering (45429) 1024 Rio Lane ?/3-86 according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National)Park Service. 414/013 930 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 12/23 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation sheet SIGNIFICANCE Item number 8 was located at 1127 West Third Street. This building was purchased bythe Edison Institute in 1936 and moved to Greenfield Vilalge in Dearborn, Michigan 1210 West Third Street. This building was demolished and the lot is now small park.8 The second Wright and Wright Printing Office was at 1060 West Third Street.

This building is still standing and is owned by Aviation Trail Inc., which plans to restore the building for use as a museum devoted to early opened to the public as a museum dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Library of Congress, 1975), p. 6. 1980), 4. Fred C. Kelly, The Wright Brethers (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 4 Renstrom, p.6. Aviation, Revised Draft, (Dayton, Ohio: Aviation Trail Inc., 1984), pp.43-48. Ibid., pp.58-6l Ibid., pp.39-42. (3-82) 1 Arthur G. Renstrom, Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Chronology (Washington D.C.: eligibility). received Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places Ibid., pp.14-16. Aviation Trail Inc.is currently restoring the 22 South Williams Street OMB NO.1024-0018 Ibid., pp.49-53. NPS Form 10-900-a Page 2 date entered FEB1 3 866 along with the wright Family home. A replica of the fifth shop is located in aviation.

building to the way it looked when it housed Wright and Wright Printing and The National Park Service determined that the building at 22 South Williams Street was eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places Fred C. Fishk, "The Wright Brothers' Bicycles,"The Wheelmen (November Mary Ann Johnson, On the Aviation Trail in Dayton, Ohio, the Birthplace of United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation sheet Wright Brothers Collection, Wright State University Archives: Milton Wright Diary; Financial Records. Kelly, Fred C. The Wright Brothers. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1975. Research material from Aviation Trail restoration project for the Wright Cycle Company Shop, 1984.

received Page Inventory-Nomination Form (3-82) Secondary Sources: National Register of Historic Places Primary Sources (continued): NPS Form 10-900-a C."The Wright Brothers'Bicycles."The Wheelmen For NPS use only OMB No.1024-0018 date entered FEB 13 198 Renstrom, Arthur G. Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Chronology Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Orville Wright August 19, 1871.

Wright Cycle Company Shop, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio First Floor: Before restoration Second Floor: Before restoration Basement: Before restoration Porch Wright Cycle Company Shop, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio First Floor: After restoration Second Floor: After restoration Basement: After restoration Balcony Ramp Porch Step WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ("R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Wright Cycle Company Shop-Wright and Wright Fed. Reg. Date; Date Due: 2/13/66 - ACCEPT _ - RETURN nomination by person or local government owner objection Federal Agency: _ Lappeal LJ sample Jrequest - NR decision Reviewer's comments: Reviewer - _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below -substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3.

Classification Present Use 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description -excellent J unaltered -original site ] summary paragraph - boundary selection moved Accessible resubmission completeness Ownership REJECT Date Category alterations/integrity ruins Status Recom./Criteria Discipline deteriorated clarity Montgomery County unexposed Action: Condition Working No. Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Substantive Review: Public Acquisition Printing Offices Check one 6000236 3/2/86 JAN I 6 1986 yes fair 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below - summary paragraph justification of areas checked I relating significance to the resource Jjustification of exception J other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10.

Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _local State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Photographs Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Signed - Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet context Builder/Architect Date Period title Maps clarity national applicable criteria relationship of integrity to significance Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) _state -completenesg 1 MAL JHHOHLER. THE WRI Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH 1. 22 S. Williams St., ca. 1896 Wright Cycle Company Shop Photographer: John A.

Brannick Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH 2. Wilbur Wright in bicycle shop Wright Cycle Company Shop Photographer: John A. Brannick Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH 3. Orville Wright and assistant in shop Wright Cycle Company Shop Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH 4. Assistant at work in printing office Wright Cycle Company Shop Photographer: John A. Brannick Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH 5. 22 S. Williams St., 1983 Wright Cycle Company Shop Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH 6. 22 S. Williams St., north side, 1984 Wright Cycle Company Shop Photographer: John A. Brannick flight, December 17, 1903. Photograph #7: The first successful powered Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH 7. First successful powered flight, Dec.

17, 1903. Wright Cycle Company Shop Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH Photographer: John A. Brannick Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH Photographer: John A. Brannick Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH 8. 22 S. Williams St., east side, 1984. Wright Cycle Company Shop Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH 9. 22 S. Williams St., west side, 1984. Wright Cycle Company Shop Photographer: John A. Brannick Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH Negs: Wright State University, Dayton, OH 10. 22 S. Williams St., 1984. Wright Cycle Company Shop UNITED STATES DAYTON NORTH, OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DAYTON NORTH QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OHIO- MONTGOMERY CO ITM: 16 738860 4403930 ROAD CLASSIFICATION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON, D.C.

20240 The Director of the National Park Service is pleased to inform you of our determination pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, and Executive Order 11593 in response to your request for a determination of eligibility for enclosed material. Federal planning process. We urge that this information be integrated into the National Environmental Policy Act analysis and the analysis reguired under section 4 (f) of the planning concerning properties eligible for the National Register lies with the agency or block grant recipient after the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has had an opportunity to comment. We are pleased to be of assistance in the consideration of historic resources in the SEP 1 1983 RECEIVED UNIVERSITY Attachment planning process. RESEARCH SERVICES United States Department of the Interior best possible program decisions.

with or without Federal participation or assistance.The responsibility for program As you know, your request for our-professional judgment constitutes a part of the inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.Our determination appears on the This determination does not serve in any manner as a veto to uses of property, AUG 2 9 1983 Department of Transportation Act, if this is a transportation project, to bring about the Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 December 30, 1985 SINCE 1885 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief National Park Service Department of the Interior P.O. Box 37127 Dear Carol : Ward House, Summit County, Ohio. Kirkwood, Joseph, House Bel mont Del aware Wood l awn Farm Chateau Laroche Marmon, Martin, House Wright Cycle Company Shop/ Wright and Wright Printing Offices Finley, Ebenezer, House Please contact me if you have any questions.

Montgomery SOCIETY 614/466-1500 Logan Guernsey Wayne HISTORICAL WRL:bp Fayette County Enclosures High House Resubmission Sincerely, Gertenslager Carriage and Wagon Company State Historic Preservation Office Ward House New Submissions Summit JAN 1 6 1986 Washington, D.C. 20013-7127 All of the appropriate notification procedures have been followed for these W. Ray /Luce National Register of Historic Places Enclosed are eight new National Register nominations and one resubmission. STATUS 1. MISSING - 2. REMOVED/ 6. OVER- - T. NPS -. 8. DOE - 9. RESTRICTED (NHL Name, if different than NRHP Name) (Where found, or source of replacement) JAN.

1986 DEMOLISHED (State) Locator Card 86000236 COMMENTS (County) SIZED UNDOCUMENTED EXPLANATION: OWNER OBJECTION (Cause for removal) National Register of Historic Places WASO 21 (Date Removed) (Current source of partial documentation) (Date Designated) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Date Found/Replaced) (Reference Number[s]) (Date form completed) (Location of oversize file) (Target Date) (Completed by) (lf multi-state/county MRA, state/county where filed and location) Montgomery (TR or MRA Name) (Resource Name) Ohio 3. NHL - 7. NPS - Available on: Microfiche ( ): Optical Disk () 5.MRA 4.TR (If multi-state/county MRA, state/county where filed and location) 06/21/1990