Welcome to Dayton Womans Club -- founded in 1916 and serving the community for over 90 years. The traditions and heritage of our "founding mothers" have been passed down to todays energetic and enthusiastic women and men. In the late 1840s Robert W. Steele, for whom Daytons first high school was named, built a home at 225 North Ludlow Street. Napoleon Bonaparte Darst purchased the house in the 1860s and began extensive renovation and enrichment, thus changing the Classic Revival style of Mr. Steeles home to the Second Empire style.