Squirrel-Forrest Historic District

Squirrel-Forest Historic District is a compact residential area in Dayton, Ohio, along the southeastern edge of the Five Oaks neighborhood. It contains 97 contributing and 7 noncontributing buildings, including houses, duplexes, apartment buildings, detached garages, and a Catholic church and school complex. Construction dates run from about 1910 to 1949. Lots were sold individually with deed restrictions requiring minimum building costs and set backs, which produced larger, more substantial homes than nearby streets might otherwise have had. The architecture is varied: American Foursquare houses are widespread, Tudor-inspired homes line the raised west side of Squirrel Road, and Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial, Craftsman, Prairie and Neo-Classical examples appear along with a Ranch house built in 1949. Corpus Christi Church shows Mission detailing. The district is regarded as a later extension of the Dayton View and Grafton Hill neighborhoods developed after Dayton annexed land north of the Great Miami River in 1868.