Delco Building

  • Also Known As: Beaver Power Building No 2
  • Also Known As: Delco Plant No 1

  • Address: 329 E 1st St
  • Vicinity: N Patterson Blvd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1912/00/00 Schenck and Williams Architect The four-story reinforced concrete, Beaver Power Building No 2, is completed in late 1912. The structure features large mushroom columns supporting large, open industrial and office space.
1912/00/00 Fred Beaver modifies an industrial building he is already constructing on East First Street for a new tenant, Delco.
1912/00/00 Charles F Kettering Office According to city directories, Charles Kettering has an office at 329 E First Street. Col Edward Deeds is never listed in city directories as having an office in the Delco Building.
1913/00/00 Delco Electronics Corp Office By early 1913, Delco has sold a total of 35,000 starting, lighting and ignition systems. The company's employ 1,500 workers operate out of the basement and two floors of a rented factory building on East First Street.
1913/00/00 A fifth floor and partial sixth floor are added to the Delco Delco Building. Charles Kettering office moves to the sixth floor.
1913/04/00 Charles F Kettering Work Charles Kettering borrows a fire engine from the Ahrens-Fox Company of Cincinnati to pump water out of the Delco Building and hose down mud-caked equipment. Delco will return to limited production in less than three weeks. Great Flood of 1913
1916/05/11 Delco Electronics Corp End Deeds and Kettering sell Delco to the United Motors Company. Both Deeds and Kettering will stay at their respective positions with Delco after the sale.
1926/00/00 Charles Kettering works as vice president, then president, of Delco and keeps an office at 329 E First Street through 1926 when the company is known for manufacturing starting, lighting and ignition apparatus for autos, aeroplanes and motor boats.
1927/00/00 Delco Electronics Corp End Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company has ceased to exist.

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Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Industry



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Registry Number: 16000462
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