The Reibold Building in
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-most populous city in Ohio, with a population of 137,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Dayton metro ...
was the area's tallest building from the time of its completion in 1896 until 1904 (when the first part of the
Centre City Building
The Centre City Building (formerly known as the United Brethren Building) is an historic building at 36-44 South Main Street at the corner of East Fourth Street in downtown Dayton, Ohio. It was designed by Charles Herby and built in 1904 by ...
, then known as the United Brethren Building, was completed).
The Reibold building was named for the developer,
Louis Napoleon Reibold
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, and housed The Elder & Johnston Department store (now
Elder-Beerman
The Elder-Beerman Stores Corp., commonly known as Elder-Beerman, was an American chain of department stores founded in 1883 and whose last stores closed in 2018. The chain, based primarily in the Midwestern United States, was composed of 31 sto ...
)
and offices.
It was constructed in three phases: the center section in 1896, the South annex in 1904, and the North annex in 1914.
The
Peters Burns and Pretzinger
The Pretzinger name belongs to a family of architects and engineers in Dayton, Ohio. Albert Pretzinger (born February 28, 1863) started the family's architectural legacy.
In 1892 he was with Peters, Burns & Pretzinger. He established his own f ...
firm (see
Pretzinger) and Dayton native
Charles Insco Williams are credited as its architects.
[ Emporis]
Otis Elevator Company
Otis Worldwide Corporation (trade name, branded as the Otis Elevator Company, its former legal name) styled as OTIS is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets
elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and related equipment.
...
installed 4
escalator
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s in 1934, the first in Dayton.
A major renovation and addition of an 11-level parking structure by Architects Associated, Inc., L. B. Robinson Inc., and Heapy Engineering was completed in late 2002.
See also
*
List of tallest buildings in Dayton, Ohio
The history of high-rises in the United States city of Dayton, Ohio, began in 1896 in architecture, 1896 with the construction of the Reibold Building. Although the Reibold Building was Dayton's first high-rise, the Centre City Building is ofte ...
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Skyscraper office buildings in Dayton, Ohio
Office buildings completed in 1896
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