{"nrhp_refnum":"80003172","name":"Dayton Fire Station No. 14","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1422 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dayton","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.77723127000007,"lon":-84.20257913799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Mission style brick fire station with a three-story hose drying tower at 1422 N. Main Street at Forest Avenue in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, built in 1901 by the firm Peters, Burns, & Pretzinger.","why_significant":"The nomination cites it as a fine example of Mission style architecture as interpreted by Midwestern architects around 1900, and a rare use of that style for a public building in Dayton. It also notes that Hose Company #14 was the last Dayton fire company to use horse-drawn apparatus, with its last horse-drawn run in 1917.","narrative":"Built in 1901 at 1422 North Main Street, Dayton Fire Station No. 14 is a two-story brick firehouse in the Mission style, measuring 36 by 62 feet with a full basement. A square three-story hose drying tower projects from the south side, and curved, parapeted gable ends mark the roofline. Seven battered brick buttresses with limestone foundations support steel beams inside, and the front balcony has octagonal columns with Byzantine-style capitals. The design was by Peters, Burns, & Pretzinger. The station is notable as a rare Mission style public building in Dayton and for the craftsmanship of its construction, with records surviving for many of the workers. It also marks a change in firefighting: Hose Company #14 was the last in the city to use horse-drawn equipment, making its final such run in 1917 with horses named Hans Wagner and Ty Cobb. The company worked from the building for seventy-eight years. The station is now vacant and owned by the city.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1901)","architect_builder":"Peters, Burns, & Pretzinger","architectural_style":"Mission style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant, owned by the City of Dayton; condition rated fair and described as unaltered on its original site.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.839875-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003172.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003172/94810927fa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003172/94810927fa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DaytonFireStation14.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:DaytonFireStation14.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990418","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Fire_Station_No._14","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5243528"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/dayton-fire-station-no-14-80003172/"}