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Photograph of Huffman Historic District
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Huffman Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 157 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1982 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. Roughly bounded by E. 3rd., Hamilton, Van Lear and Beckel Sts., Dayton
  • When was it listed? August 1982
  • Category. district
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82003618 - 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.

Topographic sheet covering Huffman Historic District, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet covering Huffman Historic District, surveyed 1904

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Huffman Historic District: 9 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Broadway Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Broadway Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
East River Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jackson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jackson Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moraine Materials Pit No 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moraine Materials Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South Dayton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Southern Hills Supply, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Southern Hills Supply, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Newspapers printed here

8 papers

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.

NewspaperPublished
The Daily Bulletin1942 to 1946
The Dayton Forum1913 to 1949
Dayton Union News1940 to 1944
Dayton Daily Empire1850 to 1865
The Daily Express1950 to 1955
The Ohio Daily-Express1946 to 1950
The Daily Empire1865 to 1867
The Dayton Citizen1950 to 19??

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Marcus Bossler House0.4 miles1980
Newcom House0.4 miles1980
Saint Anne's Hill Historic District0.4 miles1986
St. Mary Roman Catholic Church0.6 miles1983
Jacob O. Joyce House0.6 miles1983
Dayton Motor Car Company Historic District0.7 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003618 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery CountyAll 157 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.
  • 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.