A few quick shots of the Huffman district in east Dayton. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indeed.

Lookin' good!

Looks like a grand old neighborhood maybe on the verge of a comeback. Nice shots.

So my old elementary school is senior housing now?  Interesting.

Dayton has some gems.

Nice job, Jeff. 

Looks quite pleasant.

What are the boundaries of the Huffman district? Is there a map somewhere of these Dayton historical districts?

 

PS - excellent photos.

I really don't know what the official boundaries for the Huffman Historic District area.  I have maps of all the official City of Dayton neighborhoods, but Huffman is actually a part of the Historic Inner East Neighborhood and apparently is not considered its own official neighborhood by the city.

There are indeed historic district maps: here's a PDF

 

That comes from the city's planning department web page.  They have some other interesting documents and maps as well.

http://www.cityofdayton.org/planning/doc_library.asp

Thanks PigBoy...I had forgetten all about those maps.  I still wonder why the city doesn't split up the Historic Inner East into different neighborhoods.  St. Anne's Hill, Huffman, and others in the Historic Inner East already have their own neighborhood Associations and no one really refers to it as the Historic Inner East.  Also, there are already neighborhoods that are smaller than Huffman, St. Anne's Hill, etc.  I'm sure there's some reasoning behind it, but I just don't see it.

Here is an older pix of the Huffman School (from the Dayton Public Library Lutzenberger Collection)

 

 

...the 1869 map of this area shows it as platted but nearly no development, so I guess this area built-out in the 1870s and 1880s.

 

I thought an interesting feature of 4th Street, which is where most of these are from, was that slope that caused a limestone retaining wall to be built between the houses and the sidewalk, on the north side of 4th, making the houses a bit more imposing as they are higher than the street by nearly a half story or so.

 

 

 

brilliant photographs

Huffman could be a lot worse, I don't know if it's going up or down now though. Probably mixed.