Posted March 15, 200718 yr Twin Towers A history of the neighborhood is available here. And just a few pics from Linden Heights.... A a couple of other random East Daytom Pictures....
March 15, 200718 yr Second to last house is stunning. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 15, 200718 yr Last house reminds me of the Linden twins. Was the building with the "7" a firehouse? Great shots!
March 15, 200718 yr Was the building with the "7" a firehouse? Yes. COMPANY #7 FIRE HOUSE/AVANT GARDENS, 401 Xenia Avenue, is the oldest remaining fire house in Dayton. Built in 1884, it operated until 1956. Since 1990, it has housed Avant Gardens specialty florist.
March 21, 200718 yr What's that newer looking complex with the black iron fence around it? It is called The Glen at St. Joseph which was built on the site of the old St. Joseph Orphanage. The new complex houses single mothers and their children and provide numerous services to them over the course of their their stay until graduation from the program (about two years). Mothers are required to pay rent, pay utilities, follow pretty strict rules, participate in job training or go to school, and work. In return, they are provided with an apartment, on-site childcare, parenting classes, life skills coaching, counseling, etc. It really is a fantastic program that really isn't a handout and should really help create a solid foundation for many mothers and their young families. The funding has come from the Mathile family (who initially wanted to remain anonymous, but even though word has gotten out that that is where the funding is coming from, has still remained incredibly low-key) http://www.glenatstjoseph.org/
March 21, 200718 yr It really is a fantastic program that really isn't a handout and should really help create a solid foundation for many mothers and their young families. Really? Sorry, I couldn't resist, dfly. ;) :lol:
March 21, 200718 yr St Joseph Orphanage was originally going to be relocated in west Dayton, east of Mound Street to about Sprague (Edwin Moses Blvd). The site was purchased, but the organizers changed their mind and by 1875 had aquired new land and built the orphanage in east Dayton, on a hill overlooking the city. The west Dayton property was sold, and became, by 1880, the Southern Ohio Stockyards. I don't know if there are any pix of the original orphanage. By the time I arrived in Dayton there was nothing on the hill but some low rise buildings that looked like they dated from maybe the 50s or 60s. @@@@@@ The part of Twin Towers west of St Marys, Xenia Avenue and the surrounding residential streets, is Dayton's "missing" historic district. It is not considered historic, and has not experienced gentrification, but is one of the oldest surviving neighborhoods in the city. The houses in the residential streets off of Xenia (and perhaps some on Xenia) often date to before 1869, perhaps to the 1840s on some blocks north of Xenia. One of these blocks was one of the first plats in the outlots east of the original town of Dayton. Houses on this block could be as old as the Oregon and St Annes Hill. Xenia Avenue the street was probably built in the early 1850s as a shun-pike and shortcut into Dayton from the turnpike (todays Linden Avenue), which accounts for the odd angle of the street vis a vis the surrounding street grid. Xenia Avenue is one of the most intact commercial streets in East Dayton as it still has some existing retail (Oscar Beigel is one of the last two neighborhood jewlers left in Dayton), and hasn't been decimated by piecemeal demolitions and parking lot construction and modern replacements to the extent East Third and East Fifth have. The streetscape there is pretty good. In the pix you can see two industrial buildings, one with red brick and big windows, the other painted more in a buff or cream color. One of these is a survivor of the Dayton's big tobacco industry. It was a cigar box factory. I think the other used to be a machine shop of some sort. Dffly also catches the oldest surviving firehouse in the city. On the side streets there where some corner stores, similar to St Annes Hill and Newcome Plain...usually off of Clover Street. Dffly catches a surviving one in a pic. Unfortunatly this neighborhood, or the old part of it that is of interest to me, will probably end up being demolished via incremental abandonment. There are already a lot of vacancys and board-ups on the side streets.
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