Dayton · Downtown – Theater District
Hotel Ardent Dayton
The 10-story Harries Building of 1925 at First and Main, opened in 2025 as a 118-room hotel with Dayton inventions and framed patents in its design.
- Built
- 1925Built 1925-26 as the 10-story Harries Building (later the Barclay Building): excavation began March 1925 and the building was effectively complete by January 1, 1926 (Dayton Vistas). The hotel opened in February 2025.
- Style
- Second Renaissance Revival
- Architect
- Frank Hill Smith Inc.
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 118
- Area
- Downtown – Theater District
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The Harries Building rose at First and Main streets in 1925-26 on a lot first platted in 1809 by Dayton founder Daniel Cooper, designed by Frank Hill Smith Inc. with input from a Chicago building-managers’ board. It later took the name Barclay Building. First Hospitality converted it into a 118-room hotel that opened in February 2025, with Dayton inventions, an NCR cash register and framed patents in the design.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site paid
- Address: 137 North Main Street, Dayton, OH 45402
Sources (3)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.