{"nrhp_refnum":"74001581","name":"Pollack, Isaac, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"319 W. 3rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dayton","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.76322299000003,"lon":-84.20816551199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Second Empire mansion built in 1876 at 319 West Third Street, Dayton, Ohio, for liquor wholesaler Isaac Pollack. It was later moved to a new site at Monument and Wilkinson Streets in 1978.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be significant as an elegant, finely built example of Second Empire architecture, one of few graceful remnants of its period in the inner city. It is also tied to Isaac Pollack, a successful Dayton businessman and philanthropist, and to its later use as a noted dance studio.","narrative":"Built in 1876 at 319 West Third Street in Dayton, this three-story Second Empire mansion was the home of Isaac Pollack, a French-born wine and liquor wholesaler who built it beside an identical house for his business partner Solomon Rauh. The front is smooth-cut Cleveland freestone with a carved stone entrance, tall round-arched windows, brick side walls, and a patterned slate mansard roof with iron cresting and decorated dormers. Inside, heavy carved oak woodwork, an open stairway, marble mantels and plaster ornament survive, though some rooms were later divided into offices. In 1913 Fenton Bott bought the house and ran a dance studio there, adding a ballroom and ballet salon. Public ownership followed in 1949, and the building faced demolition for downtown redevelopment. It was listed as one of the few remaining graceful mansions of its era in the inner city. A move to a new site was approved in 1977 and scheduled for 1978.","period_of_significance":"1876 (19th Century)","architect_builder":"Isaac Pollack (builder)","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Originally owned by the City of Dayton and threatened with demolition; a 1977 relocation was approved and scheduled for June 1978, with preservation work planned by a new owner. Condition listed as good but altered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.19811-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001581.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001581/4a7454771a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001581/4a7454771a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IsaacPollackHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IsaacPollackHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990585","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pollack_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6076964"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/pollack-isaac-house-74001581/"}