{"nrhp_refnum":"82003618","name":"Huffman Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. 3rd., Hamilton, Van Lear and Beckel Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dayton","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.761729935000034,"lon":-84.16775059989394,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 85 acres on Dayton's Inner East Side in Montgomery County, Ohio, roughly bounded by E. Third, Kamillon, Van Fearam and Beckel Streets. It was annexed to the city in 1868 and developed mainly in the 1870s and 1880s.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the most representative sampling in Dayton of late nineteenth-century architecture, with blue-collar, artisan, merchant and managerial residences in one identifiable area. The socio-economic character of its original residents is unusually well preserved. Its growth followed the neighborhood booster-developer pattern typical of Dayton's nineteenth-century expansion, led by banker and developer William P. Huffman.","narrative":"Huffman Historic District is an 85-acre neighborhood on Dayton's Inner East Side, annexed to the city in 1868 and built up mostly during the 1870s and 1880s. The arrival of the Third Street Railway in 1869 spurred its growth. Banker and real estate developer William P. Huffman platted much of the area, built homes there for his children and donated land for a church and for Huffman School, built in 1875 and described as the oldest elementary school building in Dayton. The district holds a broad range of Victorian architecture, including Italianate villas, Queen Anne and Eastlake houses, a Second Empire residence and modest vernacular cottages once occupied by craftsmen and artisans. Linden Avenue contains the grandest homes, while streets such as Bell and Centre hold smaller workers' houses. Although many buildings have been altered, most could be restored. The district was listed because it offers Dayton's best surviving cross-section of late nineteenth-century housing across social classes.","period_of_significance":"1868-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian-era residential styles including Italianate, Queen Anne, Eastlake, Second Empire, Shingle and High Victorian Gothic, plus vernacular workers' housing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Many homes have been altered, especially smaller ones, but few could not be restored to original character. Restoration is under way on some streets, and East Third Street has commercial intrusions.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.077082-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003618.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003618/a19fc9979c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003618/a19fc9979c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_on_Huffman_Avenue.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_on_Huffman_Avenue.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990454","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5929576"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/huffman-historic-district-82003618/"}