{"nrhp_refnum":"78002144","name":"Dayton Daily News Building","other_names":["Dayton Newspapers Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4th and Ludlow Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dayton","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.75791877800003,"lon":-84.19367363699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Literature","Politics/Government","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Beaux Arts newspaper building at Fourth and Ludlow Streets in downtown Dayton, Ohio, completed in 1910 and designed by architect Albert A. Pretzinger, with a press room addition added in 1922.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the building's Beaux Arts architecture and its association with James M. Cox, who built Dayton Newspapers and later became governor of Ohio and a presidential candidate. Cox wanted a classical building resembling a bank to symbolize the solidity of the newspaper business. The building is also tied to the career of its Dayton-trained architect.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of Fourth and Ludlow Streets in Dayton's commercial core, this three-story Beaux Arts building housed the Dayton Daily News. Completed in 1910 to designs by local architect Albert A. Pretzinger, it has a three-bay east facade with a Roman Corinthian colonnade, a stone tabernacle entrance, and a red-painted wood curtain wall with elaborate panels and cornices. A four-bay press room addition by the same firm followed in 1922. The building reflects the ambitions of James M. Cox, who built Dayton Newspapers, served in Congress and as Ohio governor, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1920. Cox recalled wanting a classical building that looked more like a bank than a newspaper plant, to symbolize a solid institution after a banker doubted newspapers could be profitable. Pretzinger, born and trained in Dayton, became a partner in the firm Peters and Burns in 1893. The building remains in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":"1910, 1922","architect_builder":"Albert A. Pretzinger","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and occupied; additions to the north and rear mask parts of the building, with a second rear addition under construction at the time.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:11.894508-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/78002144.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002144/9a17168b67-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002144/9a17168b67-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Steve Morgan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dayton_Daily_News_Building_from_southeast_in_2021.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Morgan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dayton_Daily_News_Building_from_southeast_in_2021.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100004316","name":"Downtown Dayton Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/downtown-dayton-historic-district-100004316/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990486","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Daily_News_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5243518"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/dayton-daily-news-building-78002144/"}