Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Lindsey Building is a historic commercial building in the downtown section of the city of Dayton, Ohio, United States. Built in the early twentieth century, the Lindsey has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Lindsey Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 157 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85000564- 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 Lindsey 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 Lindsey 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
commercialbusiness district in Dayton, Ohio. A privately owned commercial building, it currently stands vacant except for a street-level retail store. Situated on the western side of Main Street, the building is in the same block as the Arcade Building (NR, 6/18/75) complex and the Kuhns Bullding (NR, 6/18/75) both of which are on the National Register. The Commercial style twelve-story structure is rectangular in plan (four bays storefront covers the first 2 1/2 floors with a recessed entrance located in its left bay.
The third floor has short, recessed multi-light windows on a double-hung sash, rectangular with flat arch vertical joint stretch, header panels with stone bases and "capital" flanked bays, all capped by a decorative century utilized a tripartite design, generally a two story base, a unique among the remaining high rise examples in Dayton because the narrowness of detail in the central shaft so that the majority of its decorative treatments, which are classified in nature, are found on the uppermost levels high-rise bulldings in the city. Condition moved unexposed fair ruins 7. Description treatment in the uppermost position.The Lindsey Building however seems to be roof as does a two-story recessed storage penthouse.
Check one wide and seven bays deep) and is faced in stretcher-bond bricks.A modern -deteriorated The LINDSEY BUILDING (c. 1917) is located in the heart of the of its lot resulted in a strikingly tall and slender buliding which projects Virtually all of Dayton's high-rise commercial bulldings of the early 20th date multi-story center shaft, and a one or two story cornice.The Lindsey where the heavy terra cotta cornice juts outward much like its contemporary 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) distinct characteristics of the early 20th century style through its commercial growth of downtown Dayton during the early twentieth century. The Lindsey Bullding, built by Theodore Lindsey, has been part of the Dayton Savings and Loan Company, the Mutual Home and Savings Association, and a host of other commercial concerns, its local importance stems from the development of the central Dayton business district. "Main Street Is one of the few, if only, streets in the downtown which portrays a strong visually cohesive, urban image which is rooted in the traced to two major factors, a well-drawn, workable city plan and a history of architectural development characterized by evolutionary rather than revolutionary architectural designs.
Daniel Cooper's plan for the city of Dayton belles its early-nineteenth the commercial growth and served the functional needs of the city throughout the nineteenth century. As Cooper had planned, Main Street quickly became the The first phase in Dayton's Main Street development occurred during this special-function construction followed this same general pattern.
1800-1899 1700-1799 1500-1599 1600-1699 1400-1499 economics philosophy conservation Unknown invention humanitarian archeology-historic engineering communications education industry literature music archeology-prehistoric Period art religion theater science 1917 prehistoric social/ sculpture law agriculture military Specific dates -communityplanning of masonry construction;few topped four stories in heights.New, century origins.Dayton's wide rights-of-way and large block-grids sparked major north-south pathway and a developmental spine for Dayton.The The Lindsey Building is significant under criterion A and C as displaying the tripartite arrangement and classical inspired detail and reflecting the architectural and historical content which influenced its construction, the construction of the courthouse in 1850, established Dayton as a focal point of commercial or converted residential structures.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 85000564, 13 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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