Every town with any claim to metropolitan status had one. Even if it was only three or four stories. The obligatory red-brick white-stone-accented 1920s hotel.

The Hotel Van Cleve was an historic 12-storey, 236 room hotel that once stood at 36 West 1st St in Dayton, Ohio. It is perhaps best known as the location that Boeing engineers designed the B-52 Stratofortress over a single weekend in 1948. The hotel was demolished in 1969.

Following demolition Parking Management, Inc. opened a parking lot on the site. This was supposed to be temporary, until Christ Church could decide what to do with the site. However, Parking Management, Inc. still operates a parking lot on the site today.