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History of the Kuhns Building and the Office Mail Chute, a Dayton Invention?

January 31, 2024 By Andrew Walsh 3 Comments

The Kuhn's Building is one of Dayton's most beautiful 19th century structures downtown. It predated the Dayton Arcade by about two decades, but today it is connected to the complex and considered a part of it. The building is notable not just for its architecture … [Read more...] about History of the Kuhns Building and the Office Mail Chute, a Dayton Invention?

Filed Under: Historical Dayton Tagged With: Benjamin Kuhns, Curt Dalton, Dayton Arcade, Downtown Dayton, Elevator Operators, Inventions, Kuhns Building, Mail Chutes, Post Office, Romanesque Revival, Thomas J Payne

The People Behind the Buildings: Who Were Kuhns, Reibold, Lindsey, Conover?

March 3, 2020 By Andrew Walsh 1 Comment

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Downtown Dayton, despite all it has lost over the years, still maintains an enviable architectural legacy featuring a number of early office towers and other commercial structures built around the turn of the 20th century. Many of these were named for people, including the … [Read more...] about The People Behind the Buildings: Who Were Kuhns, Reibold, Lindsey, Conover?

Filed Under: Historical Dayton Tagged With: Banking, Benjamin Kuhns, Burns and Pretzinger, Charles Insco Williams, Conover Building, Frank Mills Andrews, Frederick Reibold, Kuhns Building, Lindsey Building, Louis Napoleon Reibold, Manhattan Clothing Store, Obadiah Conover, Oleman's Department Store, Peters, Peters and Burns, Reibold Building, Theodore Lindsey

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