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DAYTON — Firefighters responded to a fire on Taylor Street at the former site of a General Motors parts plant.
Thick black smoke was reported and hazardous materials responders were sent to the scene.
Roads in the area were blocked off to the public.
Built in 1929, this Spanish Revival-style building was designed by Schenck and Williams to serve as the Downtown Dayton Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA), replacing a predecessor that was built in 1908. The building features a buff brick exterior, steel-frame pivot windows and casement windows, roman arched bays, red terra cotta tile hipped roofs, stone and metal balconies with large corbels, limestone trim, a stone base, arched bays on the first floor, front entrance bays flanked by engaged solomonic columns, a four-story rear wing, a penthouse tower with an octagonal lantern, and a central light court on the front facade. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, and is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. The building today remains in use as a YMCA on the lower levels, with the former guest rooms on the upper floors having been converted into an apartment complex known as The Landing.
Built in 1930, this Art Deco-style building was designed by Schenck and Williams for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company to serve as their offices and main switchboard in Downtown Dayton. The building features a granite base, a limestone exterior, a massing that tapers with setbacks towards the top, stone and metal spandrel panels, one-over-one windows, a main entrance with a decorative peacock-like screen, recessed behind an archway, and flanked by decorative sconces, decorative sculptural reliefs, an interior lobby with decorative light fixtures, a decorative ceiling, aluminum doors, marble walls, and decorative elevator doors, and decorative terra cotta panels and Art Deco screens surrounding the main entrance door. The building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. The building today is owned by AT&T.
Built in 1930, this Art Deco-style building was designed by Schenck and Williams for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company to serve as their offices and main switchboard in Downtown Dayton. The building features a granite base, a limestone exterior, a massing that tapers with setbacks towards the top, stone and metal spandrel panels, one-over-one windows, a main entrance with a decorative peacock-like screen, recessed behind an archway, and flanked by decorative sconces, decorative sculptural reliefs, an interior lobby with decorative light fixtures, a decorative ceiling, aluminum doors, marble walls, and decorative elevator doors, and decorative terra cotta panels and Art Deco screens surrounding the main entrance door. The building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. The building today is owned by AT&T.
Built in 1930, this Italian Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Edward B. Green to house the Dayton Art Institute, an art museum. The building features a limestone exterior with a front loggia featuring three arched openings, casements windows, a red terra cotta tile hipped roof, copper trim at the base of the roof, decorative corbels, a rusticated base, an octagonal footprint, a main entrance loggia with arched openings at a rear Postmodern-style addition to the building, facing the parking lot, and a large front staircase with rusticated stonework, multiple landings, decorative landscaping, and semi-circular arched niches. The building is a contributing structure in the Steele’s Hill-Grafton Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and increased to its present size in 2023.
Built in the late 20th Century, this Brutalist-style building features a concrete exterior, a large glass curtain wall, cylindrical concrete columns, and projected stairwells with curved corners. The building houses the Montgomery County Coroners, and is a noncontributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
Built in 1926, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Schenck and Williams for the Third National Bank of Dayton. The building features a buff brick and limestone exterior with replacement windows, large arched bays at the top of the building, cornices with details and modillions, decorative reliefs, limestone quoins, and three large arched bays at the central portion of the lower portion of the building’s front facade. The building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019, and today serves as a commercial office building.
Built in 1972, this Modern International-style building features a concrete gridded exterior with exposed columns and concrete spandrels, ribbon windows, and a three-story podium to the rear of the building. The building presently serves as a commercial office building, and is a noncontributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
Built in the mid-20th Century, this two-story New Formalist-style commercial building features arched bays flanked by flared piers, a concrete cornice, and concrete spandrel panels. The building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019, and today, houses a bar.
Built in 1975, this Brutalist building was constructed to serve as a Federal Building for Downtown Dayton, and was constructed by Messer and Sons Construction Company. The building features a dark brown textured concrete exterior with large glass curtain walls, ribbon windows, a plaza with a grassy lawn and trees, and cantilevers at the top floor of the building. The building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
Built in 1961, this Modern International-style building replaced a previous fire station on the same site, built in 1887. The building serves as the Dayton Fire Department Headquarters, as well as Dayton Fire Station Four, with three apparatus bays, offices, sleeping quarters, and crew support spaces inside. The building features a limestone panel and red granite panel-clad exterior, a brick base, ribbon windows, stone fins above the main entrance on Main Street, a large storefront at the stairwell entrance on the Monument Avenue facade, and a three-story rear wing. The building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019, and today, remains in use as a fire station and the Dayton Fire Department Headquarters.
Built in 1908-1910, this Beaux Arts-style building was designed by Alfred A. Pretzinger for the Dayton Daily News, a newspaper company. The building was expanded in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1970s, as the newspaper grew in size, The building features a terra cotta-clad exterior with fluted corinthian pilasters and engaged fluted corinthian columns, decorative reliefs, one-over-one double-hung windows, wooden spandrels, a stone base, a front portico with an arched pediment and arched doorway, acroterions on the pediment, a cornice with dentils, and decorative lamppost light fixtures flanking the main entrance door. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. The building is presently vacant, and saw the demolition of the many attached wings and an adjacent historic building as part of a redevelopment effort in 2013, which stalled and eventually was cancelled.
Built in 1969-1972, this complex of Brutalist buildings was designed by Edward Durell Stone and Associates to serve as the main campus of Sinclair Community College, which serves Montgomery County and the Dayton area. The complex of buildings feature concrete exteriors with tall circulation cores, a mix of sunken and raised plazas, gridded facades, a sculptural tower in the middle of the campus, a sunken library with skylights in the middle of a plaza above, coffered ceilings, and grounds landscaped with planters, trees, grass, and bushes. The buildings are contributing structures in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019, and today, remain in use as the home of Sinclair Community College.
Built in 1884, this Queen Anne-style building was constructed as a masonic lodge, post office, and city hall for Dayton, and over time also housed the local Knights of Pythias Hall, a movie theater, Kroger grocery store, the Midwest Brokers Mart, and a carpet store.
The building features a red brick exterior, side gable roof, arched window openings, decorative stone trim accents, bands of decorative brick coursing, a rusticated stone base, brick pilasters with corbeling, first-floor storefronts with cast iron columns, with the corner storefront featuring a lower floor than the others and an entry at the same level as the sidewalk, rather than raised up several steps, and window openings that have been covered with vinyl siding and wood infill since the late 20th Century when the building was utilized as the Midwest Brokers Mart and as a carpet store, but mostly still contain the original two-over-two double-hung windows in relatively good condition.
The building is divided into a three-story front portion with a tall second-story assembly hall (formerly serving as a city meeting hall and masonic hall) with a shorter and smaller third-story assembly hall above (which formerly served as a movie theater and still contains the theater’s coat closets and projection booth), with the rear wing featuring four stories that formerly served as offices for the Masons, Knights of Pythias, and the City of Dayton. Between these two sections of the building is a large and winding interior staircase, with a double door at the exterior along Berry Street, a cast iron balcony with decorative brackets on the exterior of the second floor, a gable at the roofline above.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022 as “Dayton City Hall” - though it is known more commonly in the local area as the Rayme-Burton Building. It is presently slated to be converted into several apartment units on the upper floors that will leave the character-defining original interior features intact and restore the exterior window openings to their original state, and also feature rehabilitated ground-level retail space.
Built in 1970-1972, this Modern International-style building was designed by Edward Durell Stone and Associates and Brown and Head and Associates to house the government of Montgomery County. The building features a limestone-clad facade with tall narrow bands of windows with opaque spandrel panels flanked by stone piers, a raised lawn and plaza over the building’s service wing and underground parking garage, and a tall parapet around the penthouse on the roof. The building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019, and remains the primary home of the Montgomery County government.
Built in 1929, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Frederick Hughes to serve as the Biltmore Hotel, and was converted into a senior housing apartment building in 1981. The building features a brown brick exterior, terra cotta trim, a rusticated terra cotta base, one-over-one windows, a terra-cotta clad top and parapet, a rooftop balustrade, cartouches, arched window bays not eh second floor, and a three-story rear wing. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. The building today remains in use as a subsidized senior housing complex.
Built in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, these buildings demonstrate the character of historic structures in Downtown Dayton, with brick and terra cotta exteriors, one-over-one windows, and modified first floor facades with retail shopfronts. The buildings are contributing structures in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
Built in 1884, this Queen Anne-style building was constructed as a masonic lodge, post office, and city hall for Dayton, and over time also housed the local Knights of Pythias Hall, a movie theater, Kroger grocery store, the Midwest Brokers Mart, and a carpet store.
The building features a red brick exterior, side gable roof, arched window openings, decorative stone trim accents, bands of decorative brick coursing, a rusticated stone base, brick pilasters with corbeling, first-floor storefronts with cast iron columns, with the corner storefront featuring a lower floor than the others and an entry at the same level as the sidewalk, rather than raised up several steps, and window openings that have been covered with vinyl siding and wood infill since the late 20th Century when the building was utilized as the Midwest Brokers Mart and as a carpet store, but mostly still contain the original two-over-two double-hung windows in relatively good condition.
The building is divided into a three-story front portion with a tall second-story assembly hall (formerly serving as a city meeting hall and masonic hall) with a shorter and smaller third-story assembly hall above (which formerly served as a movie theater and still contains the theater’s coat closets and projection booth), with the rear wing featuring four stories that formerly served as offices for the Masons, Knights of Pythias, and the City of Dayton. Between these two sections of the building is a large and winding interior staircase, with a double door at the exterior along Berry Street, a cast iron balcony with decorative brackets on the exterior of the second floor, a gable at the roofline above.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022 as “Dayton City Hall” - though it is known more commonly in the local area as the Rayme-Burton Building. It is presently slated to be converted into several apartment units on the upper floors that will leave the character-defining original interior features intact and restore the exterior window openings to their original state, and also feature rehabilitated ground-level retail space.
Built in 1930, this Italian Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Edward B. Green to house the Dayton Art Institute, an art museum. The building features a limestone exterior with a front loggia featuring three arched openings, casements windows, a red terra cotta tile hipped roof, copper trim at the base of the roof, decorative corbels, a rusticated base, an octagonal footprint, a main entrance loggia with arched openings at a rear Postmodern-style addition to the building, facing the parking lot, and a large front staircase with rusticated stonework, multiple landings, decorative landscaping, and semi-circular arched niches. The building is a contributing structure in the Steele’s Hill-Grafton Hill Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and increased to its present size in 2023.