James M. Cox’s Beaux Arts Newspaper Building: From a New York Bank to a Presidential Ticket
In 1898, a 28-year-old James M. Cox bought a struggling Dayton newspaper. By 1920, he was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, running alongside a young Franklin D. Roosevelt. The newspaper building he modeled after a specific bank in Manhattan still stands in Dayton, but is vacant and deteriorating after a botched…