In the 19th century, Downtown Dayton, especially west of Main Street, was primarily a residential area.
One of the most luxurious streets was Robert Boulevard on the western edge near the river. But another was West First Street, where the largest concentration of prominent Dayton residents called home, and which in another article I recounted as “Dayton’s Lost Park Avenue.”
Those homes are long gone by now, but there is one old home still remaining on West First Street…