America's Packard Museum is an automotive museum located in
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater D ...
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History
The Citizens Motorcar Company, known as America's Packard Museum, is a restored
Packard dealership transformed into a museum that displays twentieth-century classic Packards and historic Packard artifacts and memorabilia.
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
grandeur. The original 20' tall porcelain and neon Packard sign, removed from the building in the early 1940s, returned to its former position at the corner of Ludlow and Franklin Streets in 1992 for the grand opening of the museum. Since that time, the museum has grown in size and stature, winning the James Bradley Award of the Society of Automotive Historians in 2004. ''Car Collector'' magazine also named the museum one of the "Top Ten" automotive museums in the United States.
More than 50 cars are on display, from 1900s Brass Era cars, the streamlined Classic car
A classic car is an older car, typically 25 years or older, though definitions vary.While other languages, such as German and Dutch, may refer to classic cars as "oldtimers", this usage is unknown in English, where "old-timer" refers to an elder ...
s of the 1930s and 1940s, to the modern Packards of the 1950s, as well as war machines, parts, accessories, and original sales and service literature. A notable highlight of America's Packard Museum is the original Articles of Incorporation of the Ohio Automobile Company, which later became Packard Motor Car Company. In 2019, Robert Signom III was named Curator to continue the legacy of Packard, and the mission and vision of the museum founded by his father.
America's Packard Museum is a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit organization under the Internal Revenue Code.
See also
* Afton Station Packard Museum (Afton, Oklahoma)
* Packard Motor Car Dealership (Buffalo, New York)
Packard Motor Car Showroom and Storage Facility is a historic automobile showroom located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a three-story, reinforced concrete frame structure with restrained Neo-classical detailing. It was designed b ...
* Packard Motor Car Dealership (Philadelphia)
The Packard Motor Car Company Building, also known as the Press Building, is a historic office building located at 317–321 N. Broad Street between Pearl and Wood Streets in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The structu ...
References
External links
www.americaspackardmuseum.org
Official Site
Museums in Dayton, Ohio
Automobile museums in Ohio
Packard
Art Deco architecture in Ohio
Auto dealerships on the National Register of Historic Places
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