The huge Traxler Mansion located at 42 Yale Ave. in the Dayton View Historic District has been vacant for nearly a decade.

The mansion was built around 1910 for Louis Traxler, a Dayton department store owner. The elegant 10,000 square-foot home is built in French Chateauesque-style, the same concept as the storied Biltmore House on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC.