{"nrhp_refnum":"88001712","name":"McPherson Town Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Main St., Great Miami River, and I-75","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dayton","county":"Montgomery County","state":"OH","lat":39.76757087100006,"lon":-84.19618896275672,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 96 buildings on the north bank of the Great Miami River, directly across the Main Street Bridge from downtown Dayton, Ohio. It covers about 67 acres and developed mainly in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The district is recognized under Criterion C for architecture. Its streets preserve a largely intact collection of Eastlake, Stick and Queen Anne houses from the late nineteenth century, along with Hawthorne School and early twentieth-century apartment buildings. Its growth was tied to the Great Miami River and to flood protection works that made the area attractive to Dayton's middle class.","narrative":"McPherson Town is a compact residential neighborhood of about 96 buildings on the north bank of the Great Miami River, just across the Main Street Bridge from downtown Dayton. Platted in 1845 by Samuel McPherson and annexed to Dayton in 1868, it filled in mostly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. A levee built in 1897 and the filling of the Dayton View Hydraulic in 1906 eased flooding fears, and middle-class families replaced early structures with larger Queen Anne and Eastlake homes. Streetscapes include Stick Style houses, brick Victorian vernacular dwellings, and the 1886 Hawthorne School, noted for fine brickwork. Early twentieth-century additions include the Floral Terrace townhouses of about 1912 and the Spanish Colonial Revival El-Morado Apartments of 1924. The neighborhood was badly damaged by the 1913 flood but recovered. Only six later buildings intrude on its historic character, and the district was listed for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1868 - 1924","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne; Stick/Eastlake","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are single and multiple dwellings. Six later buildings are classed as intrusions, and one house on Floral Avenue is described as dilapidated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.553812-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/88001712.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990456","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McPherson_Town_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6802607"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/montgomery-county/mcpherson-town-historic-district-88001712/"}