{"nrhp_refnum":"76001499","name":"Reynolds, John R., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"24 Klee St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dayton","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.75774115100006,"lon":-84.14944597399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick, two-and-a-half-story Second Empire house at 24 Klee Street in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, built about 1867 as the residence of John R. Reynolds.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a notable example of the Second Empire style in Dayton, little changed from its appearance in an 1875 atlas apart from the porches and lost blinds. It is also tied to John R. Reynolds, a wealthy local capitalist who lived there from 1867 until his death in 1894.","narrative":"Built around 1867 at 24 Klee Street in Dayton, this brick house is a midwestern example of the Second Empire style. It has an irregular plan with a projecting pavilion, a steep slate mansard roof, a turret with an oval dormer and cresting, and semicircular dormers. The central entrance has a decorated stone frontispiece with a bracketed hood, and the windows have bracketed stone caps and sills. A cast iron veranda survives on the east side, though the north and west porches are later replacements. The house looks much as it does in an 1875 county atlas, apart from the porches and missing blinds. It was the home of John R. Reynolds, born in Pennsylvania in 1831, who worked as a lumber merchant and plantation partner in Mississippi before settling in Dayton in 1867. There he became a capitalist with directorships in a bank and an insurance company, and he lived in the house until 1894.","period_of_significance":"1867-1894","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied private residence; condition field not clearly marked. The north and west porches are described as deteriorating replacements, while the east veranda keeps its cast iron grillwork.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.240057-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001499.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001499/fda3914560-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001499/fda3914560-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wdzinc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_R._Reynolds_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Wdzinc</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:John_R._Reynolds_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990474","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138611314"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/reynolds-john-r-house-76001499/"}