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Ochsner, Jeffrey K. Mortensen, Jennifer LaRae 2015-09-29T17:53:26Z 2015-09-29T17:53:26Z 2015-09-29 2015 Mortensen_washington_0250O_14643.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33452 Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015 The daylight factory, a multi-story concrete frame industrial building that proliferated in the built environment in the early twentieth century, has become industrially obsolete. Despite this current status, the daylight factory is a valuable typology for understanding the American industrial landscape in the early twentieth century. This thesis will detail the daylight factory as an architectural type, its development in the American industrial landscape, and its potential for adaptive use. It will also examine three representative case studies in Dayton, Ohio to explore the particular influence of the daylight factory in a particular historic context. The thesis concludes by determining that the most historically significant element of a daylight factory is the versatile industrial space within and that historic preservation strategies should be sensitive to that characteristic. application/pdf en_US Copyright is held by the individual authors. concrete; daylight factory; Dayton; Ohio; historic preservation; industrial architecture; versatility Architecture American history architecture Reclaiming the Daylight Factory: The Significance of Versatility in the Preservation of Early Twentieth Century Concrete Frame Industrial Buildings in Dayton, Ohio Thesis Open Access open.access