Tour St. Annes

211 Henry Street

• c1882
• John Garner Home
• Gingerbread ornament on porches and at roof peaks
• Large Victorian garden

219 Henry Street

• c1870
• Victorian Vernacular cottage
• Built by a local carpentry and building firm
• Ornate porch
• Double entry doors, one leading to formal front parlor and other into house proper
• Victorian Vernacular Cottages were often the homes of working men and are also called "workingman's cottages." They frequently display architectural ornament borrowed from other Victorian styles usually on the elaborate porch. These surprisingly spacious cottages have windows of various shapes in the front gables.

216 Henry Street

• Late 1880s
• Vernacular brick
• Neoclassical porch posts; porch has a walkthrough design with stairs front and back
• Bay holds entry door

The term neoclassical refers to the common practice of utilizing the design of columns and other decorative details from ancient Greek or Roman architecture. In this case, the columns with their simple tops and slightly bulging shafts are a variation on the Greek Doric column type.

144/146 LaBelle Street

• c1870-1889
• Queen Anne
• Double with limestone banding
• Fishscale shingling on porch roof and second story addition

A side view of this home allows an examination of how many structures in the district were expanded over time: wooden additions were simply built on to the rear. In many cases these additions replace the original summer kitchens.

136 LaBelle Street

• c1880
• Vernacular Federal brick with plain face alld porch at side, leading into addition
• Once owned by E.E. Barney, who designed the Pullman train cars in use in the 1880s
• Unusual brick path with maker's marhs visible

Most of the homes in the neighborhood retain their historic character because they have been well cared for since they were built, but there are some properties which were allowed to deteriorate to the point that they were condemned. As is the case with 136 LaBelle, most of these once condemned buildings have been purchased by homeowners who restored them.

129 LaBelle Street

• c1871
• Built by Captain Henry Dornbusch as an investment: he lived at 53 High Street
• Vernacular Federal brick
• Ornate screen doors

The Federal Style is a predominantly American type which became fashionable in Dayton about 1835. It is plain and substantial in appearance, with symmetrical window placement and a rectangular shape. The window glass is usually arranged in six-over-six panes, because during the heyday of this style glass could not yet be made in large sheets.

123 LaBelle Street

• c1870
• Built by Adam Weber, a shoemaker
• Porch with fish scale shingles on roof and turned posts
• Ornate iron grate over basement windows

112/110 LaBelle Street

• c1887
• Italianate, with typical stressed window ornament, in this case including keystones over each window and ornament below
• Multiple gables; cross detail on front gable
• Sense of vertical emphasis

108 LaBelle Street

• Built by John Robert, a German immigrant tailor. He also built homes at 105 and 109 LaBelle for his children, and lived at 104 LaBelle
• Plain block plan with addition of bay window and ornate porch front and rear
• Upper level frame addition in rear

104 LaBelle Street

• c1868
• John Robert Home
• Vernacular Federal
• Simple, rectangular plan
• Soft brick construction with limestone sills and lintels
• 6 over 6 double hung sash windows with shutters
• Limestone posted fence

Any style termed "Vernacular" means that it exhibits local variations to a widespread trend. In this case, the home was constructed after the Federal period proper (1780 to 1820), and also after most of the other homes built in the Federal style in the city.

716 McLain Street

• Dutch Colonial Revival
• Matching front and rear porches under second story
• Twelve over one windows
• Unusual gate posts

Notice the different shapes and proportions this house exhibits compared to its neighbors. The space between the windows is greater, the house looks top-heavy, and the pitches of the roof change. This is an example of the Dutch Colonial Revival style, popular from 1895 until 1915. The style is identified by the gambrel roof and porch tucked under the second story.

104 High Street

• 1881
• Victorian Italianate
• Built by Conrad Hermann, a stonecutter
• Two story bay with unusual window placement
• Front porch, built on two large slabs of limestone, shows Eastlake woodwork
• Ornamental limestone fence posts, with pattern reflecting details of woodwork inside house
• Eastlakeis a term used to designate a specific kind of elaborate architectural ornament. Utilizes forms such as spindles, donuts, finials, and scrolls to decorate buildings.

14 Potomac Street, St. Luke's Church

• c1912
• Romanesque Revival
• The original congregation was organized under the name "German Evangelical-Lutheran Saint Lukas Congregation"
• Prominent tower
• High limestone foundation built out of rough-surfaced blocks
• Thick porch columns
• Slate roof
• Romanesque Revival became popular through the work of Henry Hobson Richardson, an American architect whose reuse of the principles of medieval pre- Gothic architecture became very popular in the 1880s. The basic features of the style include a weighty appearance; rounded arches; stained glass windows; a largely horizontal massing broken by ornate towers; high foundations; rustic-looking stonework, sometimes in more than one color or texture; and a large and heavy looking roof.

605 McLain Street

• c1887
• Vernacular Queen Anne, with ornate window detailing and windows set at odd angles

Ezra Kimmel House. Kimmel was one of Dayton's most prominent businessmen, president of Mutual Home and Savings Association, treasurer of Miami Valley Hospital and a director of Winters Bank and the YMCA.

529 McLain Street

• c1887
• Vernacular Queen Anne
• Built by Adam Bretch, proprietor of an ornamental metal business. Nicknamed the Dragon House because of the dragon ornamentation on roof
• Various types of decorative detail in dormers and window peaks
• Unusual front windows with multiple small panes of glass and pressed metal window lintels
• Large and elaborate chimneys

516 McLain Street

• c1892
• Queen Anne
• Frank 1. Joyce Home. Frank was the son of Jacob Joyce who owned the Steamboat House at 6 Josie
• Tower, varied chimney line with widow's walk, stained glass, different window shapes, in and out wall planes
• Rare two story brick carriagehouse with decorative roof tiles and detailing

This is a fine example of the Queen Anne style with its typical asymmetry, complex massing of diverse architectural forms, and elaborate detailing.

519 McLain Street

• c1898
• Georgian Revival
• Triple gables
• Central spider-web window
• Georgian Revival style homes are characteristically rectangular in shape and symmetrical in plan. The detailing utilizes the language of classical Greece and Rome, and the central axis of the facade is emphasized.

Theodore Meuche Home. Meuche was successful in the insurance, real estate and loan business. He first l lived on a large estate fronting on all of the north side of McLain Street, but later destroyed his early stick style home to make way for more residences. This Georgian Revival style residence is unique in the area.

Josie Street Greenway

The Josie Street Greenway is a band of trees, shrubs and flowers designed to screen the neighborhood from the highway. Area residents maintain the Greenway, often contributing cuttings or plants from their gardens.

148 High Street

• c1850
• Vernacular Queen Anne
• Built by Albert E. McClure, an early settler of the area. He also built the house at 6 Josie St.
• Two "halves" of facade do not match, giving impression of organic irregularity
• Queen Anne windows, with small panes of glass surrounding a larger pane

144 High Street

• c1890
• Free Classic Queen Anne
• Brick lower story with frame upper
• Fish scale ornament dividing levels
• High pedestals on neoclassical porch columns
• Free Classic Queen Anne utilizes classical details rather than the gingerbread ornamentation found on other subtypes of the Queen Anne stYle.

130 High Street

• Craftsman
• Deep eaves, brackets on porch
• Limestone chimney

The Craftsman style is associated with geometric, right angled ornament, low lines, wide eaves, squared porch supports and rustic chimneys.

112 High Street

• c1875
• Vernacular Federal
• Shutters around door integrate door with long windows and help preserve the sense of a symmetrical facade

70 High Street, First United Presbyterian Church

• c1895
• Romanesque Revival
• Worked on by local stonecutter and builder Conrad Hermann, who lived at 104 High
• Locally rare red sandstone in heavy stone blocks
• Turrets
• Irregular massing
• Rounded windows

48 High Street

• c1870
• Renaissance Revival
• Symmetrical facade
• Arched windows with tubular ornament above alternating with rectangular windows
• Recessed doorway

 Wesley Boren Home. Boren was a successful brick maker, builder and contractor who was very active in the neighborhood

 Home to the Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors. The DSPS was organized in 1938 and today has a membership of over 300 artists. The structure was bought by the society in 1967 and now houses their High Street Gallery.

The Renaissance Revival style was known for the elaborated treatment of the entry way, the utilization of architectural detail from Italian sixteenth century architectural treatises, and a different window treatment from floor to floor. The overall shape of the building was usually squarish and solid looking, balanced between the vertical and horizontal.

26 High Street

• c1880
• Queen Anne
• Front and side bay
• Triangular projecting gable with elaborated architectural detailing
• Garland in pediment
• Paneled door with beveled glass sidelight

1400 East Fifth Street, Liederkranz-Turner Society

• The style of the building reflects its German theme, as do the murals painted on the Fifth Street fence and the maypole in the parking lot
• Sculpture of stork on roof

German Heritage Club. The organization dates back to at least the Dayton Turnian Society in 1853, a German Health and Exercise Club with the motto 'strong bodies, strong minds.' The current club is merger of the exercise group with the Liederkranz Society of German Folk singers, and is dedicated to German heritage, culture, tradition and music. Its presence in the neighborhood reflects the important role played by German immigrants in the early stages of the area's history.

101 LaBelle Street

• c1905
• Queen Anne
• Built by the Muth Brothers, owners of a moving and rigging company

 Queen Anne characteristics visible in stained glass in door, ornamented dormers, and patterned slate roof

222 Dutoit Street

• c1838
• Unusual applied ornament
• Large, floor-to-ceiling windows

 Eugene Dutoit farmhouse, Victorianized' by Charles Underwood. Dutoit was an important early Dayton settler who owned a 111 acre farm along what is now Dutoit street. He had a degree in botanical studies f from the University of Geneva, and experimented with new varieties of plants at his farmhouse. His apple orchards caused the hill along Dutoit Street to be nicknamed "Vinegar Hill" in the late 1830s. Dutoit sold off portions of his land but retained a sizable chunk until his death.

148 Dutoit Street

• First mentioned in 1880; major renovations in 1896
• Free Classic Queen Anne
• Once home for pastor of Second German Baptist Church
• At one time housed 7 apartments which shared one bathroom
• Side tower
• Front first and second story porch and side porch with classical detailing
• Bay and ornate attic windows with shingling underneath and other eclectic details

136 Dutoit Street, BosslerMansion

• c1869; on National Register of Historic places
• Best example of Second Empire style in city
• During 1913 flood, mansion used as a refuge for downtown residents
• In 1970s, converted into 13 apartments, now returned to single family
• Built of cut Delphos stone from Bossler family quarries, soft brick and limestone
• Mansard roof, with roof over central pavilion changing shape from concave to convex
• Floor-to-ceiling windows, window hood molds
• Incised stone door surrounds
• Large landscaped lot

Was residence of Marcus Bossler, who grew wealthy in the limestone and building business: his company provided stone for the old jail, courthouse and buildings at the Veteran's Administration. Bossler became bankrupt after overextending himself putting up the Ohio Building at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, and lost his home to creditors.

Second Empire is very elegant, based on the style prominent in France during the reign of Napoleon III, 1852-70. The windows are long and elaborated, the facade has a projecting central portion and is divided into units by variations in the stone treatment, and the roof is stressed. The shape of the roof is called Mansard, after the frenchman who designed this type of roof shaped like a rectangle with curved sides. The large portion of the facade given over to a roof area creates room for a third story without making the building look unusually tall.

1420 East Fourth Street, Jesus Church

• c1880
• Vernacular brick, Romanesque detailing
• Property donated by Marcus Bossler
• Originally Second German Baptist Church, where services were conducted in German until World War ll
• Arched window tops with keystone; pointed lancet shapes in the glass
• Stained glass in windows
• Brackets at roof line
• Elaborate stairway

8 LaBelle Street, IOOF

• c1911
• Classical style, with strong horizontal detailing, and an elaborate boxed cornice with dentiled frieze
• Once home of a strong Odd Fellows group, now abandoned and awaiting a savior
• Projecting end pavilions give in and out rhythm to facade
• High rusticated foundation
• Ornamental panels set into brick
• Elongated windows, shape and size of which varies from floor to floor
• Use of tin in ornament

28 LaBelle Street

• Victorian Vernacular Cottage
• Elaborate Eastlake style porch
• Original tin roof