MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune, 2 March 1974. 1O GEOGRAPHICAL DATA UTM REFERENCES B LONE EASTING VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Lots 97-98, Hemings Resurvey in the 3rd Ward of Tiffin, Ohio. LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME/ TITLE Blair D. Tarr--Ass't. to Regional Preservationist STREET & NUMBER 310 E.
Market Street (419) 448-2804 CITY OR TOWN Ohio 44883 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: LOCAL V As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).1 hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892.453 CODE DATE ZONE TELEPHONE NORTHING COUNTY Tiffin ATTEST: NATIONAL Minutesof the Tiffin Board of Education,24 March 1884.
ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY_Less than one (1) acre. ORGANIZATION Heidelberg Ohio Historic Preservation Office) The Story of Tiffin University:A Tiffin Tradition, Photos _ OK 11.15.78 Inventory - Review - Send-back 1. 8.79 OTHER KEEPER Entered HAER TECHNICAL Maps ARCHEOLOGIST Property HISTORIAN CONTROL State Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up Re-submit 8.79 12.28.78 12-29-78 letun Geographical Data -- Acreage: UTM Reference(s): _ Verbal Boundary Description: Thankyou/for your attention to the above items. 1, 8.79 Description: Certification: STATE Bibliography: Date: IS RESUBMITTED.
Photographic Coverage: The attached National Register Inventory-Nomination form is being returned to your office for clarification of the information indicated below.PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM WHEN THE NOMINATION Map Coverage: 22978 Chief, Branch of Registration Other: Pis. see reteun shut. United States Department of the Interior- Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Form No. 10-300 (Rev.
10-74) FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NOV J 4 1978 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT - VICINITY OF PRESENT USE X BUILDING(S) X PRIVATE X EDUCATIONAL _WORK IN PROGRESS - PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION X YES: RESTRICTED - IN PROCESS SCIENTIFIC BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED MILITARY -OTHER: OWNER OF PROPERTY Ohio 44883 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDSHistoric Preservation Office--Heidelberg College BOTH 147 UNOCCUPIED LOCATION COUNTY Tiffin University DATE Tiffin ACCESSIBLE TITLE CODE COMMERCIAL OBJECT CATEGORY Seneca CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP PARK RELIGIOUS HISTORIC SITE AGRICULTURE STATE NAME RECEIVED 039 DISTRICT Delbert Latta--5th District STATUS _ENTERTAINMENT PH0687693 155 Miami Street Miami Street Grade School DATE ENTERED _TRANSPORTATION _GOVERNMENT -_MUSEUM Ohio Historic Inventory _PUBLIC October 1977 _INDUSTRIAL _STRUCTURE Ohio DATA.SHEET FEDERAL XSTATE COUNTY LOCAL 7 DESCRIPTION _MOVED DATE.
DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE with a cut stone water table. Seven bays are on each side, with dormer and west sides, with a chimney centered between them. Finials are on Mullion windows are on the first and second floors, with cut stone The interior has been kept basically intact, preserving the excellent CONDITION UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED FAIR XALTERED has been removed. extending bays.
radiating voussoirs above the cut stone lintels.Dormer windows are the peaks of the dormers.Trim which was originally on the truncation, first floor and basement on the south side.Fire escapes are on the east XORIGINAL SITE round with radiating voussoirs except for the center gable on the north X.EXCELLENT The elliptical arches at the entrance are inscribed with the date, bays extending beyond the other bays, and with corbel tables on the non- The Miami Street Grade School is a three story example of the Gothic and west sides. CHECK ONE a snack bar and lounge for students. second.floor windows, forming a belt course perhaps a foot wide. are on the north and south sides, and two gable dormers are on the east tured designs are in the wall at the halfway point of the first and _UNALTERED -RUINS -GOOD The building has a slate truncated hip roof.
Three gable dormers lintels and plain lug sills. The windows on the extending panels have a stoop and stairway on the north side, where the words "Tiffin University" DATE The foundation is of rock-faced plain ashlar cher bond having been used. The basement has been remodeled to provide original woodwork in the building.C been converted to an office. style of architecture.
The construction is of brick bearing wall, stret- One cloakroom on the second floor has "1884".The original stairways at the entrances have been-replaced with AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCIENCE X ARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING X 1800-1899 _OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES 1884 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE also on Miami Street, on the southeast corner of the intersection of and remained a part of Heidelberg for thirty years, until it separated Madison Streets in downtown Tiffin, where it remained until 1956.
LAW RELIGION ART ECONOMICS ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE THEATER EDUCATION PERIOD PREHISTORIC INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION LITERATURE AGRICULTURE SCULPTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT 1900- INVENTION MILITARY _COMMUNICATIONS MUSIC _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _COMMERCE Tiffin University originated as the Department of Commerce of Hei- _CONSERVATION School in l956,Tiffin University purchased the building as the first several neighboring buiidings, and continues to serve the Tiffin community. which is described in detail under item 7. _1700-1799 -1400-1499 When the City Board of Education abandoned the Miami Street Grade _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN located in the upper floors of the Remmele Building at Washington and -1500-1599 In January,187l, the Tiffin City Board of Education was authorized - PHILOSOPHY -1600-1699 for the Third Ward of the city of Tiffin until the spring of l956. BUILDER/ARCHITECT William H.
Hollenberger property ácquired in establishing a permanent campus and occupied the building December 18, 1956. Since then the building has been renovated these was the Miami Street School. However, this building was soon out- Miami and Jackson Streets. The building is significant as an example of Gothic architecture, to become Tiffin Business University on January 27,l9l8.It was first The University has expanded into by a vote of the citizens of Tiffin to build two school houses.One of Built in 1884,it was used as a grade school 9 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune, 2 March 1974. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY_Less than one (1) acre. UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Lots 97-98, Hemings Resurvey in the 3rd Ward of Tiffin, Ohio. STATE - 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Blair D. Tarr--Ass't.
to Regional Preservationist STREET & NUMBER 310 E. Market Street CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL _ As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892.453 ORGANIZATION COUNTY NORTHING TELEPHONE CODE DATE Tiffin ATTEST Heidelberg Ohio Historic Preservation Office) ZONE EASTING (419)448-2804 Ohi044883 Minutes of the Tiffin Board of Education,24 March l884.
LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES ZONE Form No. 10-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FEB 2 8 1979 MAR 2 | 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM MIAMI STREET GRADE SCHOOL (TIFFIN, OHIO-SENECA COUNTY)--REVISED STATEMENT OF ITEM NUMBER 8 CONTINUATION SHEET The Miami Street Grade School building is an excellent local example of the community has examples of this style in ecclesiastical architecture, it has only one other example in an educational building, the College Hall of Heidelberg College, which was built between 1884 and 1886. Miami Street Grade School was built in 1884.
only other example of this style for an educational building that has been identified the other building was used only a short as part of the Heidelberg College campus (current users of the building). until 1956, when a new school building was built, and this was taken over by Tiffin to offices or housing for students plus one commercial building that has been converted nominated to or eligible for the National Register, but they do not stand on their own country, and it has a long record of service to Tiffin and the surrounding community, PAGE SIGNIFICANCE RECEIVED district potential.
asa separate nomination; the campus consists of scattered homes that have been converted This building was used as an elementary school for the western section of Tiffin public grade schools remaining in Tiffin; DATE ENTERED both in this location and its previous headquarters downtown a building listed in a away.Built before Tiffin's industrial boom of the post-1888 years, this grade school is the main building of Findlay College in neighboring Hancock County, twenty-five miles time as a school and is not architecturally eligible for the National Register.The is a witness to the importance of education in the Tiffin community at a time when this to a too much to be eligible); some of the houses are in districts only other old building still standing that was used as a grade school is the College National Register district).
This building must be nominated by itself, as there is no building owned by or used by the university eligible for listing on the National Register 1880s Gothic Revival in architecture as applied to educational buildings.While the Photos - Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF OTHER HAER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Maps Re-submit 79001945 Review HISTORIAN National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service State OH.
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN MAR 2 1 1979 Entered CONTROL Property 3.20.79 Tiffin, Ohio NOV 1 4 1978 MAR 2 1 1979 May 1978 Photo number / southwest Barb Howe Miami Street Grade School SENECA CouNtY Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio East and north sides' of building; camera pointing Tiffin, Ohio NOV 1 41978 southeast Miami Street Grade School May 1978 Photo number Z North and west sides of building; camera pointed Historic Preservation Office, Heidelberg College, SENECA COUNt NOV 1 41978 Photo number 3 Miami Street Grade School West and south sides of building; camera pointed Tiffin, Ohio northeast May 1978 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio Barb Howe Tiffin, Ohio NOV 1 4 1978 Photo number 4 northwest Miami Street Grade School May 1978 South and east sides of building; camera pointing SENECA COUNH NOV 1 4 1978 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio May 1978 Photo number 5 Barb Howe Miami Street Grade School pointing north First floor north side interior woodwork; camera MAR 2 1 1979 BOR NOV 1 4 1978 MAR 2 1 1979 SENECA CountY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OHIO-SENECA CO.
TIFFIN SOUTH QUADRANGLE STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS A- 17-316590-4583980 NOV 1 4 1978 D 1960 REGISTER DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES TIFFIN SOUTH, ONIO MAR 21 1979 G11boa Main Street Historic District Hamilton County Bradford, Robert, House Centerville vicinity Old St. Patrick's Church Honorable Howard M. Metzenbaum Byers/bjr Dr. Thomas H. Smith Columbus, Ohio 43211 For further information, please call the National Register at (202)343-6401. Cardington Kenton Location Lorain County Martin House Montgomery County Name Putnam County Wellington Seneca County Date Entered Honorable Tennyson Guyer 3/23/79 Director Tiffin Exchange Hotel Morrow County Also Notified Honorable Delbert L. Latta Cincinnati Hardin County State Historic Preservation Officer STATE OHIO Miami Street Grade Sehool Honorable John H.
Glenn Reamer Barn Hardin County Courthouse Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Honorable Donald J. Pease Honorable Tony P. Hall Honorable Samuel L. Devine The Ohio Historical Society Honorable Willis D. Gradison, Jr.
ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Gilboa - county co0e SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL - deteriorated Omoved EO NOT INTACT-O Dunexposed - Unknown Dunexeavated 2O NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access EAREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : C LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 -RECREATION -28 SCLAIMS: explain 'first'O -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 - ENTERTAINMENT-26 - LAW - 16 - SETTLEMENT-29 -ARCHEOLOGY -historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 C LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 - URBAN PLANMING-31 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - HEALTH-27 C MILITARY - 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY -13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D C ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 C TRANSPORTATION - 25 3 functions 6 architectural style(s): @landscape arohitect/ garden designer: EVENTS : date IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 147 ASSOCIATION CONDITION Tiffin Seneca INSTITUTIONAL: engineer: ENGINEERING-11 PERSONAL: STATE historic events: builder/contractor: vicinity of COMMERCE-6 artisan: CURRENTLY: artist: WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 Tiffin University major alterations: UNKNOWN-4 Dexcellent LOCAL PRIVATE ORGANIZATION NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP ADMINISTRATOR: 155 Miami St.
dates of initial construction: master builder: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET EXPLORATION-12 Daltered SAVED? YES Dfeatures: Coriginal site Oruins GNPS REGION: city / town -reconstructed IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT? Dyes Ono - RELIGION- 22 reviewers initials ETHNIC GROUP interior decorator: if state who prepared form? Dfair NAMES give role & date
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