Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Dayton Daily News Building is a historic structure located at the corner of 4th and Ludlow Streets in Dayton, Ohio. It was designed by architect Albert Pretzinger for Dayton Daily News founder James M.”
Wikipedia article Dayton Daily News Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 157 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.78002144- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1904 to 1996
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19041996
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Dayton city. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
A Typical Frontier Vavern - Daytou Contained Nine Dwellings in 1799- - Several Roads Opened--Monument Avenue Cleared--Main Street a Narrow Wagon Road - Settlements Few and Far Between - Hardships of Pioneer Life--Tidian War Apprehended - Block House Built - Schooi Opened in the Block House- - First Distillery Started - Cooper's Saw Mill - Corn Cracker - Hogs Introduced - Feed on Mast - Attacked by Wild Animals--First Flat Boat Launched-Sheep Introduced - Cost of Groceries at Cinciunati - Little Money jin Circulation - Business Conducted by Barter - Value of Diffsrent Kinds of Skins--Cut Money - McDougal's Store - Trade with the Indians - First Child Boro in Dayton - Taxation in 1800 - First Wedding - Census in 1801 - First Miuister - - Methodists - Presbyterians--Log Meeting House - First Grave Yard - - Jobn W.
At the time of the settlement at Dayton, William McMillan, Robert Whee. an and Robert Benham were the County Commissioners of Hamilton County Tabor Washburn was Clerk; Daniel Syrnmes, Sheriff; Stephen Wood, Treasure and George Gordon, Coroner.
During the winter of 1796-97, Dayton Township and other township, were formed, making eleven in all in the county, viz., Cincinnati, Columbi; Miami, Anderson. Iron Ridge, South Bend, Colerain, Springfield, Fairfiel Deerfield and Dayton. Fairfield Township included the territory east of tl Big Miami, now in Butler County. Deerfield Township included the territoi west of the Little Miami, now in Warren County, and that part of Montgon irj County between the Miami Rivers south of the north line of the fifth range )f" townships. Dayton Township was bounded as follows: Beginning at a point >n the east bank of the Big Miami, where it was intersected by the north line )f the fifth range of townships; thence up that river in all its meanderings to he Indian boundary-lino, at a point where said river crossed the said Indian boundary -line, in Section 18, Township 2, in the fom-teenth range of townships, between the Miamis; thence along said line to Ludlow's line, and down that ine to the southeast corner of Section 5, Township 6, in the eighth range of townships between the Miamis, where was a branch of the Little Miami River; hence down the river to the north line of the fifth range of townships; thence (vest with said line to the place of beginning. The township thus described infiuded within its limits territory that now forms portions of the counties of Montgomery, Greene, Miami, Clark, Champaign, Logan and Shelby. All of Wayne, Mad River and Van Buren, with parts of Washington, Dayton and Miimi Townships, of Montgomery County, as at present formed, were in Dayton Township.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 998 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Dayton Daily News Building between 1835 and 1975: 837 Animalia, 90 Plantae, 59 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN, A. E. Foeerste and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Dayton Daily News Building: 10 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Dayton, the town this property stands in, in 74 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 41 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 8 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A University of Dayton student, Sean Ferguson, 23 of Pittsburgh, was struck by lightning as he ran across university parking lot C. The student was hospitalized with serious burns and a broken jaw.
Thunderstorms winds measured by spotters as high as 72 mph downed numerous trees, many of which fell on cars and blew on to and into homes. A construction trailer was severely damaged and some businesses received damage.
A roof was blown off of a residence in East Dayton as well as several utility poles that were snapped in half. Numerous trees were down in the vicinity of Glenrock Road and East Fifth Street. Several trees landed on parked automobiles and garages.
Large limbs were reported broken. A large tree was uprooted. Numerous large tree limbs were down in the road. These occurrences were due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
A car was stranded on Keowee Street under State Route 4 due to high water. Three feet of water was also reported on Webster Street at the underpass of State Route 4.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Dayton metropolitan area. A man had to be rescued when he drove his car into a flooded retention pond near the Dayton Mall.
8 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
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.
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.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002144, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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