According to this story in Sunday's DaytonMostMetro.com blog, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, through Royce Yeater, Director of the Trust's Midwest Office, has expressed the opinion that the existing study concerning NCR Building 26 was “flawed.”  In a letter to the Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Yeater states that the study failed to take into consideration the potential of selectively removing later building materials and the historic integrity of what remains of the original structure. This position echoes that one reached previously in a Preservation Dayton study.  Copies of the National Trust letter, the ASC report and the Preservation Dayton study can all be viewed via the MostMetro story.

The building in question was the location of highly significant code-breaking activities during World War II, and has been the focus of significant attention in recent months after the University of Dayton proposed demolition. For more information on NCR Building 26, including several recent stories, click here to visit the site’s page on Preservation Ohio’s Endangered Watch List.

Photo: Preservation Dayton website featuring NCR Building 26