Carillon Historical Park

	Deeds Carillon
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Deeds Carillon at dusk
Location	Dayton, Ohio
Coordinates	39°43′51″N 84°11′51″W / 39.73083°N 84.19750°W
Built	1940
Architect	Reinhard and Hofmeister; Olmstead Bros.
Architectural style	Moderne
NRHP reference No.	05000756
Added to NRHP	July 27, 2005

Carillon Historical Park is a 65-acre (26.3 ha) park and museum in

Colonel Edward Deeds. The major sections include settlement, transportation, invention, and industry. The park also contains the Carillon Park Railroad, a 71⁄2 in (190.5 mm) gauge^[2]^[3] miniature railway

.

In 2005, Carillon Historical Park merged with the Montgomery County Historical Society to form Dayton History.^[4]

Kettering Family Education Center

The Kettering Family Education Center anchors the park and features changing exhibits in the National City Exhibit Gallery, a video about the park, and gift and snack shops. There are also rooms for education presentations.

Wright Brothers Aviation Center

The John W. Berry Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center houses the 1905

Orville Wright

before his 1948 death.

Settlement exhibits

Newcom Tavern - 1796 home of Col. George Newcom and family, oldest building in Dayton
William Morris House - 1815 stone cottage
Locust Grove School - 1896 one-room schoolhouse used for over 30 years

Transportation exhibits

An original lock of the

SUV made at the former General Motors Moraine Assembly, next to the first windshield made by Fuyao Glass America, which redeveloped the factory.^[9]

Invention and industry

Deeds Barn - features such inventions as a Liberty aircraft engine, early Frigidaire refrigerator, 1912 Cadillac with the Delco automobile electric system.
Print Shop - working 1930s print shop
Corliss Engine Building - houses the Corliss Engine that provided both electrical power and steam heat for the National Cash Register Company from 1902 to 1948.

Deeds Carillon

The park is named for the 151-foot-tall (46 m) Deeds

Edward Deeds, in whose name the bell tower was built, was a Dayton industrialist and innovator. The art moderne-style tower was built in 1942 and designed by New York architects Reinhard & Hofmeister. It was funded by Edward Deeds' wife Edith Walton Deeds and was designed to commemorate the Deeds family. When the tower was built, each of 23 bells was inscribed with the name of a family member, with the “silent” bells bearing the names of deceased family members and ringing bells cast with the names of family members then living. Today, with 57 bells, the carillon is Ohio's largest. The National Park Service listed the Deeds Carillon on the National Register of Historic Places

in 2005.

Carillon Park refurbished the carillon in 1988, converting it from an electric keyboard controlled instrument to a traditional, baton-keyboard mechanical carillon. The Park's

carillonneur

, Larry Weinstein, performs live carillon concerts every Sunday at 3:00 pm from May to October.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ "Carillon Park Railroad website". Archived from the original on April 20, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
^ Carillon Park Rail & Steam Society website
^ "Dayton History". Dayton History. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
^ Steamlocomotive.com - Ohio
^ Trolleybus Magazine No. 164 (May–June 1989), p. 45. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452.
^ Bland, Jim (April 29, 1988). "Carillon adds old buggy, '48 trolley exhibits". Dayton Daily News, p. 3-A.
^ Kline, Benjamin; and Owen Kubik (August 23, 1988). "Driver dies while towing historic trolley". Dayton Daily News, p. 3-A.
^ Gnau, Thomas (June 20, 2016). "Fuyao windshield has place of honor at park". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved September 19, 2017.

External links

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[2] "Carillon Park Railroad website". Archived from the original on April 20, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2014.

[3] Carillon Park Rail & Steam Society website

[Dayton_History_Web_Site-4] "Dayton History". Dayton History. Retrieved October 18, 2011.

[5] Steamlocomotive.com - Ohio

[tm164-6] Trolleybus Magazine No. 164 (May–June 1989), p. 45. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452.

[carillon_adds-7] Bland, Jim (April 29, 1988). "Carillon adds old buggy, '48 trolley exhibits". Dayton Daily News, p. 3-A.

[towing-8] Kline, Benjamin; and Owen Kubik (August 23, 1988). "Driver dies while towing historic trolley". Dayton Daily News, p. 3-A.

[9] Gnau, Thomas (June 20, 2016). "Fuyao windshield has place of honor at park". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved September 19, 2017.

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