Built in 1959, the Dayton property offered about 100 guest rooms. The Motor Lodge itself employed the Howard Johnson Company's second significant standardized design type--yet without any single-story guest room buildings.

Dayton's site, though awkward, was remarkable in that I-75's southbound travelers exiting to Wagoner Ford Road and reached the HoJo's from the Interstate prior to reaching any surface street!

Serving as a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge until the middle 1980s the site was subsequently converted into an Econo Lodge and remained branded until June 6, 2000. Upon losing brand affiliation it became the Parkway Inn. During 2002 it was up for sale by its owner, the Yogi Yagna Corporation--asking price $850K.