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Preservation Ohio names Julienne an endangered historic site

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By Anthony Gottschlich, Staff Writer Updated 7:57 PM Thursday, May 21, 2009

DAYTON — It’s a designation supporters of the former Julienne High School hope doesn’t last for long — endangered.

But that’s the label the nonprofit group Preservation Ohio has given the school building at 325 Homewood Ave., whose future remains uncertain in a tug of war between preservationists and Dayton Public Schools.

Thomas N. Palmer, Preservation Ohio’s executive director, told about 15 Julienne supporters at the school Thursday, May 21, that the 1926-era Classical Revival style building has made his organization’s 2009 List of Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites.

Preservation Ohio will promote the building across the state and nation in hopes of generating interest to save and redevelop it, if not for a school, then perhaps for another use.

“This is a wonderful building, it’s structurally sound,” Palmer said.

Marc Suda, president of the Five Oaks Neighborhood Improvement Association, said if Dayton schools doesn’t want to renovate Julienne for a school, it should consider building a new school on the vacant lot it owns down the hill, rather than raze Julienne.

“That’s a possibility,” Dayton Superintendent Kurt Stanic said Thursday.

But first, he added, school district officials must meet with Five Oaks parents to see what kind of school they’d like to have. On April 15, The City Commission ordered a meeting between parents and the district in hopes of reaching a compromise.

A meeting is in the works, Stanic said, but “this is the busiest time for a school district, with all of our different events, graduations, honor ceremonies,” etc.

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I will continue to say, as I have over and over--it's not historic. Nothing historic happened there. It's a school building, that apparently wasn't good enough to be continued to use as a school. It's not even close to 100 years old, so how could it even begin to be historic? The state is offering up money to build a NEW school. Not rehabilitate an old one.

B
10:34 PM, 5/22/2009

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Obsession/compulsion activity,talking relentlessly about trains when the subject is building preservation, amazingly entertaining! karon, if I show up on your door in engineer coveralls and cap, will you go on a date with me? If I showed up at your house naked for a costume party with a potato on my "schwantz", would you know I was dressed as a dictator?...or would you, somehow, relate it to trains?

Karon's Obsession
12:09 PM, 5/22/2009

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I live in Minneapolis and on a visit, took photos of Julienne to show members of Preservation Allaince of MN. Members were shocked to think the building might be torn down. That it wouldn't be used as a neighborhood anchor, if not a school. Dayton is looking more like a K-mart type of town. "Cheap but new" buildings. Some of the comments made her about tearing it down are from truly ignorant people.

Bob
12:04 PM, 5/22/2009

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Julienne needs to be preserved like the Arcade is being done. Don't make the same mistake UD did when they destroyed the inside of the Chapel. It only takes a short time to destroy something and many years to build something that survives the test of time.
If the Catholic Church could buy Julienne back, that would be wonderful.

Barbara
11:47 AM, 5/22/2009

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WHAT A JOKE, let the graduates or of Julienne pay for the upkeep, historical designation and the pain that goes with maintaining a such property. The building has no 21st century applications without major renovation and expense. Graduates, put up or shut up.

Kathy
8:44 AM, 5/22/2009

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