Tag
The Greek-revival-styled Newcom House at Carillon Historical Park was built in 1841 by Dayton settler George Newcom. Fun historical facts: 1. To make the wood siding look like a stone, a popular treatment was to cut vertical grooves into boards and add sand to the paint. 2. Greek Revival architecture…
Read more
The Sugar Camp and WAVES Cabin 22 is located at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. While riding horseback on the hill of his sugar maple grove, John H. Patterson decided that the grove would be a good place for a training camp for his salesmen. The 1934 cabin…
Read more
Built in 1817, the old and historic Hetzel Summer Kitchen structure is located at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. Peter Hetzel, his wife Catherine, and their five children lived in this small, white, wooded frame building for about a year. Peter was a carpenter and manufactured fanning mills,…
Read more
The old and historic William Morris House is located at Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. William Morris is a Revolutionary War veteran, who came to Montgomery County in 1806. He bought a 20-acre farm near Centerville in 1815 and moved into this house with his family. With no daughters…
Read more
The Newcom Tavern was built in 1796 and currently located inside the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. Considered the oldest standing building in Dayton, it was built by Robert Edgar for Colonel George Newcom. Edgar was paid 75 cents a day to build the “best house in Dayton”. Newcom…
Read more
The old and historic Watervliet Shaker Building is located inside the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. Built in 1819, the building is the final surviving remnant of the Watervliet Shaker community, which was located in eastern Montgomery and western Greene counties from 1806 to 1900. The Shakers came to…
Read more
The Locust Grove School no. 12 is an old school building (more of a house) located inside the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio. It served as a one-room schoolhouse at the corner of Possum and Bird Roads outside of Springfield, Ohio from 1896 until 1929. One teacher instructed students…
Read more
The Heritage Center of Dayton Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship inside the Carillon Historical Park houses an NCR cash register room with 90 Dayton-made machines, the Build for Tomorrow Animatronic theater, the original Deeds barn, dozens of exhibits featuring Dayton Ohio’s factories and companies, and the Carousel of Dayton Innovation (a full…
Read more