Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Rudolph Pretzinger House is a historic residence in southern Dayton, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the late nineteenth century for a prominent local pharmacist, it now abuts a city hospital, but it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Rudolph Pretzinger House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 117 National Register listings in Montgomery County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · one of 4 National Historic Landmarks in Montgomery County.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
Architect. Pretzinger
National Register reference number.79001901- 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.
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.
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.
The Commissioners of Hamilton County, on the 10th of June, 1797, at a neeting held at the Mansion House, of Seth Cutter's, in Cincinnati, appointed Assessors and Collectors for the several townships. James Brady was made Issessor, and John Kitchell, Collector, of Dayton Township. John Kitchell, 'ailing to qualify, Calvin Morrill, was, on the 25th of August, appointed in his lead, and Cyrus Osborn was appointed Constable of Dayton Township. Constables made returns of persons and property to the Assessors, who made the iists and assessments, that were placed in the hands of the Township Collectors for collection. The Commissioners and Assessors jointly controlled the disbursenents, making regular reports to the County Court. The reports of assessments ind collections for Dayton Township for this year, were lost in transit, between Dayton and Cincinnati ; the Clerk was ordered to forward duplicates, and Collector Morrill was directed to make return by the 15th of January, 1798. There vere sixteen delinquents in the township, and the Collector made final return, fight of them non est, seven satisfied and one lost. After the lists were returned each year, the Commissioners and Assessors met as a Court of Appeals, to hear appeals against assessments. The following orders show the amount of fees paid to these first officers.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,023 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pretzinger, Rudolph, House between 1835 and
1975: 863 Animalia, 89 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 Pretzinger, Rudolph, House: 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: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
No historic map-sheet match is published
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a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
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From the nomination file
1,321 words on record
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
The house faces west on South Main Street at the southeast corner of Apple The two-story house, basically rectangular in plan, sits on a rockface lime- The left bay is a round corner tower with curving 1/1 double hung sash windows and has multi-paned windows and strapwork; box cornice with brackets, dentils and The semicircular doors have! seven panels each. The window on the right has one gable over the pavilion has a decorated band, palladian window, strapwork and box side has a semicircular mullion window' with brick arch and petal transom in the gables to the sides sheathed in asphalt shingle. There is a central chimney beside the ridge of the hip. A hip dormer with mullion window of multi-pane CONDITION cornice. facade.
UNEXPOSED DATE DESCRIPTION FAIR wrought iron gate and recessed steps. _DETERIORATED decorative bullseye muntins and decorative strapwork surrounding.There is a XUNALTERED with flat arch of rockface radiating voussoirs and tooled limestone sills. The XORIGINAL SITE architrave moulding and a candle snuffer roof. right joined by coupled semicircular arches bound by a tooled limestone moulding. The left (north) side has a polygonal bay with protruding gable supported on brackets.In the gable there is a four-part mullion window of sashes with X_EXCELLENT fixed light anda petal pattern transom.Other windows are l/l double hung sash Street on the grounds of Miami Valley Hospital.The lot is a steep side hill -GOOD stone foundation with tooled water table. The walls are stretcher bond brick.
The right two bays are an advancing plane with door on: the left and window:c RUINS AREAS OF
Statement of significance
The Rudolph Pretzinger House is an outstanding example of Queen Anne archi- Rudolph's brother, Albert, an architect who took charge of the major Dayton archi- He became the architect of many major buildings in Dayton. immigrated to Ohio in 1854. The father died in 1863 and sixteen-year-old Rudolph his diploma in 1865. After a decade working for others, he opened his own firm successful, especially after developing and manufacturing a new drug, "Pretzinger's Catarrh Balm". junior. He built the new house at Main and Apple for his new bride. Pretzinger lived in this house until his death on 14 February 1909. His widow continued to live in the house until about 1920. In recent years, it has been the residence of the Miami Valley Hospital Administrator. At the moment, it is vacant.
1600-1699 1700-1799 1400-1499 1889 COMMERCE LAW ART X1800-1899 PERIOD COMMUNICATIONS SIGNIFICANCE SCIENCE SCULPTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT MILITARY LITERATURE INDUSTRY EDUCATION XARCHITECTURE AGRICULTURE MUSIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT INVENTION PREHISTORIC _ENGINEERING _TRANSPORTATION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _PHILOSOPHY -1500-1599 _THEATER -ECONOMICS tectural firm of Peters and Burns in 1889.Albert was a highly eclectic designer. - RELIGION _1900- tecture in an excellent state of preservation. The house was undoubtably designed by Rudolph Pretzinger was born in Germany one1:February 1847 - His parents
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001901, 11 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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