Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 - State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National L Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark Ex Other - recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey - recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Register 1923-1945 Architecture Commerce Property is: unknown (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Architect/Builder Previous documentation on file (NPS): N/A of a type, period, or method of construction or Skywood Farms Bibilography Criteria Considerations Cultural Affiliation individual distinction.
Montgomery County Historical Society our history. Name of repository: Reynolds, Edwin S. (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property Name of Property County and State 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) J See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/title - 7 North Main Street street & number _ state _ Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. Representative black and white photographs of the property.
(Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPOor FPO.) 732 W. Alex-Bell Road Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information isbeing collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C.470 et seq.).
instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form.Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service,P.O.Box 37127,Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of 45459 date 513-228-6271 Dayton Easting name Zone organization Northing telephone Photographs Centerville zip code Skywood Farms Additional items Continuation Sheets Montgomery County Historical Society Claudia Watson/Fred Mitchell 4.176 acres Ohio Robert and Sue Ellen Brown September, 1995 city ar town A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. 1 /1,6 413/ 912 415,0 Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. 45402 Maps OMB Approval No.
10240018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Skywood Farms was STATEMENT Of SIGNIFICANCE Skywood Farms is eligible for the National Register under Criteria B and Commerce for its association from 1923 to 1935 English Country House style to articulate its exterior and later occupied by prominent Dayton businessman, Richard Grant, it Its construction in 1923 reflects the coming of the automobile age and its influence on the development of the surrounding countryside as the home of Dayton's wealthy. longtime Dayton company, a leader in the development and sale of standardized business forms to Chevrolet automobile turer when Chevrolet adopted the use of standardized business pavilion, projecting window bays, and smooth stucco wall Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places suppliers in the country.
asymmetrical window fenestration, gable wall dormers, projecting efficient with respect to accounting, sales, inventory, and NPS Form 10-900-2 important contributor to the success of Reynolds and Reynolds, a firm that pioneered the development and printing of standardized under Criteria C and Architecture for the excellent use of the Skywood Farms was built in 1923 by Edwin S Reynolds and his Reynolds, a founder of the Reynolds and Reynolds Company. President and General Manager after Lucius' death in 1913.
Under enabled the internal operation of the firm to become more time, Reynolds and Reynolds attracted other clients for their business form production and emerged as one of the largest such include the formal Neo-Georgian entrance and the Tudor use of This (8-86) with Dayton industrialist Edwin S.Reynolds.Mr.Reynolds was an Section number 8 Page - is an example of the large rural estates which became popular Montgomery OMB Approval No. 1021-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Montgomery Co., Ohio exnibits varied rectangular wall panels, decorative rectangular ceiling detail, and large wooden entablature lintels above doors. Che foyer exhibits a decorative staircase and plaster cove The setting of the building, within an open rural environ- ment adds to the overall rustic character associated with the early 1920's.
in Dayton View, a wealthy suburb which was the favored location viable alternative to older, less flexible means of transpor- tation, Dayton's wealthiest citizens began to look far beyond the Florence Reynolds purchased a tract of land in the then rural on the banks of the Holes Creek, she and Edwin built a summer Former neighbors have stated that Mrs. Reynolds was very socially conscious, however, and that a home in the country was The Reynolds were soon joined by close family friends, national distribution and sales organization, which later formed In the 1920's, Grant successfully promoted the Frigidaire Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Skywood Farms Georgian at the formal dining room.This room cabin to escape from the discomforts of summer in the city.
the use of the English Country House style constructed in the businessman known for his innovative and effective sales methods. Florence then convinced Edwin to build a large country estate, the basis for the sales organization of the Frigidaire Corpora- the Reynolds housekeeper from 1926 to 1934,Mr.Reynolds had little enthusiasm for the project the In 1904,Edwin married Florence member of one of Section number - They made their home of the city's upper class. As the automobile made commuting a considered to be the height of fashion. As the first sales manager for Delco Light, he built up a Page tion. treatment.other rooms at the first floor are simpler in detail. Dayton's most socially prominent families. style.Within the context of the development of the style within OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Montgomery Co., Ohio starter in a car designed for the masses and by introducing planned obsolescence, he increased Chevrolet sales from 250,000 cars a year in 1925 to 1,000,000 a year in 1927. At some time, the Grants began to accompany the Reynolds to The Grant's purchased a 780 tract and built Normandy Farms manor, was designed by the New York architectural firm of Peabody, Wilson, and Brown. The house was listed in the National largest manufacturer of standard accounting forms, and was also one of the world's largest printing establishments. Under Richard Grant's leadership, the two large houses were which hang on the wall at Normandy Farms and Skywood Farms) shows the two estates nestled among a guilt-like pattern of meadows and Skywood Farms.
It is certainly very possible the firm of Island in 1911 and designed many large country estates in the several wealthy Dayton families. Julian Peabody was a graduate of Groton, Harvard, and the with the lauded architect and planner, Grosvenor Atterbury. Continuation Sheet Skywood Farms National Register of Historic Places Reynolds Company was acquired by Richard Grant.Skywood Farms Register in 1984. sheep pastures characteristic of the English countryside. Richard company more that doubled the volume of Extensive research was unable to confirm the architect for Edwin Reynolds Jr.married the Grant's 1925. eastern half of the United States.Among their number were Page between 1927 and 1930. It was located in close proximity to Skywood Farms. Normandy Farms, modeled on the English medieval combined into one large estate. Mr.
Grant evidently held a deep Peabody, Wilson and Brown (the architects of Normandy Farms) also Section number - their cabin along Holes Creek.The friends became family when Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.He was at one time associated Edwin Reynolds died in 1935.In 1938,the Reynolds and OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior . National Park Service Montgomery Co., Ohio Peabody served on the editorial committee of the Architects' Emergency Committee that published Great American Homes in Skywood Farms remained in the Grant family until 1943 when city into the country, and resulting in the transformation of Page National Register of Historic Places both families.
Continuation Sheet Skywood Farms possible that this firm may well have provided design services to NPS Form 10-900-a Section number merica in the 1930's to aid draftsmen unemployed during th As the Reynolds and the Grants were close friends, it is much of the American urban landscape. sinking of the Ward liner "Mohawk" off the New Jersey coast in OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Montgomery Co., Ohio Dayton Daily News, November 23, 1938, "Reynolds Plant to Be Grant, Richard H., Jr. and Teri E. Denlinger, (1994), Freewheeling: 80 Years of Observations from the Patriarch Hughes, Robert D., (1949), The Reynolds Family of Dayton. Normandy United Methodist Church, (n.d.), A History of Land". Prosser. Withey, Henry, (n.d.), Biography of American Architects.
BIBLIOGRAPHY National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Enlarged: Richard H. Grant Acquires Company and Adjoining Skywood Farms Beringer, S. M., (ca. 1955), A History of Dayton Industries. Normandy Church. Boyer, Chip, (ca. 1993), Correspondence to Lindsay Kuziensky. Brown Robert L, (May 22, 1981), Correspondence to Teresa Grant, Laura H., (1956), Fifty Golden Years. of Reynolds and Reynolds. Section number Page - NPS Form 10-900-a Hills Farm", Centerville Times, August 28, 1985. Page (8-86) Archives and Manuscripts, and the Montgomery County Records (Additional research facilities included: Wright State University Boice, Martha, "Mrs. Pickering Recalls Memories of the Forest NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.
10240018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Montgomery Co., Ohio Verbal Boundary Description articularly described as follows Beginning at a point in the centerline of Alexandersville- Estates Iwo, Section 7,s 21 degrees 10' 30" W a distance of distance of 77.50 feet to an iron pin at the northwest corner of 115.00 feet to an iron pin; thence N 47 degrees 45' 20" W a 30" W a distance of 225.00 feet to an iron pin at the northeast 590.98 feet to a point in the centerline of Alexandersville- Bellbrook Road; thence with the centerline of said Alexanders- ville-Bellbrook Road S 65 degrees 58' 30" E a distance of 303.00 Recorders Office as transaction 83-163C10 BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION The nomination incorporates the property that was histori- National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Skywood Farms corner of Normandy Farm Estates recorded in Situated in Section 32,Town 6 with the east line of said Normandy Farm Estates Two,Section 6 Section number 10Page Page - Page 4 of the plat Records of montgomery County, Ohio; thence Ohio; thence with the north line of said Normandy Farm Estates less, subject, however, to all legal highways and easements of distance of 105.00 feet to an iron pin; thence S 20 degrees 59' Four, Section 2, N 77 degrees 58' 30" a distance of 326.11 feet (8-86) Book 73 of the Plat Records of Montgomery County, of the Plat Records of Montgomery from said Farms Estates recorded in Book 20 NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Montgomery Co., Ohio Section number - 732 W.
Alex-Bell Road Centerville, Ohio 45459 Date of Photographs: March, 1995 Location of Negatives: Montgomery Co. Historical Society Overall view of setting and north side facade. View of north side exterior looking southeast. General view at rear. Overall view of original east side facade and View at foyer looking toward entrance. looking at living room and into foyer. Page Number Photograph Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Additional Documentation Description of new rear addition. Skywood Farms Interior view at foyer and decorative stairwell. Montgomery County, ohio Views View at dining room. Looking at living room from foyer. View of main entry and adjacent wings. Detail view of catch basin on main facade. OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 Photographer: Fred Mitchell (8-86) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : 2/22(96 DATE DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE OTHER : N PDIL: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N V ACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N DATE REJECT TELEPHONE RETURN MULTIPLE 3/10/96 DISCIPLINE REVIEWER 1/25/96 RECOM./CRITERIA PERIOD: Entered in the DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 16TH DAY: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR REASONS FOR REVIEW: Skywood Faums 732 w. Alex. Bell Road Dhio Geneval view at veav. add, tin Stairwell. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DAYTON SOUTH QUADRANGLE DAYTON SOUTH, OHIO 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES
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