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Nomination for Beatty Glass Company

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 2 1l. Tiffin Art Metal Company 450 Wall Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 2. Hunter, William, Residence 12. Webster Mfg., a division of Webster Industries, Inc. 325 Hall Street 3. Mueller Brewery Mueller, Christ, Residence 5. Ohio Lantern Company 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works 250-258 Benner Street PAGE FHR-8-300A RECEIVED Bowman's Distillery Beatty Glass Company Tiffin Waterworks Hanson Machinery Company Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 40 Harrison Street 255 Riverside Drive (11/78) 235 Miami Street 146-164 Riverside Drive FOR HCRS USE ONLY 60-72 Hudson Street DATE ENTERED 170 Ella Street 1.

Hedges-Hunter-Reller-Bacon Grist Mill Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 4 PAGE 1 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works Robert H. Losey Tiffin, Ohio 44883 2. Hunter, William, Residence 11. Tiffin Art Metal Roger H. Bacon 450 Wall Street 3. Mueller Brewery James F. Kuebler, et. al. Webster Industries, Inc. Box 39 / 146 Riverside Drive 325 Hall Street 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 13. Hanson Machinery Company 400 Melmore Street 5. Ohio Lantern Co. Corinne M. Hoffman 236 South Washington Street 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 7. Tiffin Waterworks 8. Bowman's Distillery Richard E. Digby 9. Beatty Glass Company Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts 02100 FHR-8-300A RECEIVED DATE ENTERED Clair Forrest (11/78) Martha Jane Smith Tiffin Scenic Studios Webster Mfg. Industrial Buildings of Tiffin Pioneer Real Estate 255 Riverside Drive 221 Lelar Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY Ohio Cities Water Company 144 Addison Street The Tiffin Art Metal Co. 83 West Market Street 102 East Perry Street c/o Tiffin Metal Products 235 Miami Street 37 Clay Street OCT 3 0 1979 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR HCRS USE ONLY HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 of building. Remainder of interior seems unchanged and is just open space. appears original (and was there in 1901), has windows double-hung 6/6 with plain lug sills and A wood frame iron-clad warehouse north of the main complex was built before 1901.

The (roughly wedge-shaped) with several additions, i.e. one on the east side to fill in a V-shaped construction in stretcher bond. There is a basement, and the foundation is rock-faced plain from the street, a door on the side of the building facing West Market Street, and a variety of doors on the west side; there is a functional loading door on the east side, also. This RECEIVED PAGE (11/78) interior of the original blow furnace is supported almost totally by wood beams. This Industrial Buildings of Tiffin facturer on the original site in the original building. DATE ENTERED building is still used by the factory in its original capacity.They employ 18 clay melting The Wagner Brothers Bottling Works (l0) isa very irregularly-shaped building plain wood lintel and double wood doors. One of first-floor doors has new concrete block to second floor and has cupola on top.

Floor on first floor has been lowered on south end furnace building is two stories and common bond brick. It has a gable metal roof and a stone Fourth Avenue side are a series of fanlights, multi-light with stilted arch. Some of the transoms are bricked shut. Monitor extends the length of the gable roof, and has metal siding and many windows. factory, and it was rebuilt in 1894. Most of the older buildings probably date from the completed between 1901 and 1925. The building north of the blast furnace building, which 6/4 windows with plain lug sills of stone and segmental arches. Gable, shingle roof with building has the lehrs which are still used today. This is the only domestic glass manu- The windows are primarily double-hung 2/2 with slip sills and segmental brick rebuilding, although some of the 1888 building could remain.

There are additions to the Two additions completed between 1901 and 1925 flank the outlet store facing onto Vine Street. the main two-story building and the additions previously mentioned. It is one-story brick with hip roof and cupola on top. The windows are the same treatment as the two-story building. ashlar stone. The foor is flat. There are nine bays in the front of the building and two arches, with some smaller and filled-in windows on the west side.

There is a double FHR-8-300A foundation.T interior chimney.Brick elevator shaft on rear of building river) runs from basement exterior brick stacks on the Fourth Avenue side.On May 23,1893 there was a fire in the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 5 his family still owns a large share in the company. While the business has been so needs to be mentioned here as an example of the change in scale in Tiffin industry at this Frost also helped bring several other industries to Tiffin.

In 1882 he purchased land in what is now the Highland Addition, and several of the new industries would locate in this area, forming an industrial park in the northwest quarter of Tiffin where most of river, and their location along the railroad lines instead of the river is another indica- provide worker's housing for new industries that he attracted to Tiffin, and many of these simple two-story brick buildings still stand in the northwest corner of the city, although these buildings into the 20th century before they were sold to individual families. The discovery of natural gas and oil in the Findlay-Lima area in 1886 and the con- and oil were actually found in Tiffin; 1901 maps show the location of wells around Tiffin, Frost promised free natural gas and the workers' housing to A.J.

Beatty if he would locate colored glass was begun, along with satin glass, banana clear glass, and other types. pressed glass, Sandwich glass, white milk glass, and distinguished stemware. In 1979, the RECEIVED FHR-8-300A (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 1888,exclusive of machinery.In 1889 the first pots of glass were poured.In 1892,the DATE ENTERED January 9,1967,they became a division of Interpace Corporation and added their popular FOR HCRS USE ONLY OCT 3 0 1979 successful that it makes specialized machine tools in plants around the world, the local the heavy industry is still located. These firms are served by the railroad and not the almost all have been altered to some degree. struction of a pipeline from Findlay to Tiffin encouraged industrial growth here before gas but the supplies were short-lived here.

The availability of these fuel sources was a major factor in the Beatty Glass Company's (9) 1888 move from their Steubenville plant to Tiffin. - vertical swirls and waffle designs. Local investors subscribed $35,000 cash, plus lands for a total of $50,000, to induce Beatty to come here. The plant cost $65,000 to build in U.S. Glass Co. is the only name used for the firm. Products of the early twentieth century include heavy leaded glass objects with deep cut overall designs. In the 1920s Tiffin 1937 the U.S. Glass Co. faced serious financial difficulty and discontinued cheaper products through prestige stores of the United States. In 1959 business declined once more, and, line of Franciscan Ware. The total number of employees in 1975 was 222, in comparison with to remedy their plight.

They concentrated then on high grade stemware, and unusual and heavy designs, such as cornucopias, vases, and bowls were made. Gold painting, etching, time. world.When Beatty brought his company here, they were producing opaque glass with U.S.Glass Co.of Pittsburgh created a trust,and Beatty Glass Co.joined.From 1889-1963, in 1963,the company was bankrupt.In 1964 Tiffin Art Glass was organized by four Tiffin UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE 1 on NE end -- all property now and always part of mill complex) 3. Mueller Brewery (outlott 994 and part of outlots 993 & 995 in Mueller's Replat, 1880 -- all property now owned by Tiffin Scenic Studios) 4.

Mueller, Christ, Residence (outlots 991-993 of Mueller's Replat of 1880 -- all property Smith at this location) 7. Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Iwp. along Sandusky River -- all land owned by Ohio Cities Water Co. at this location) all land owned by Digby at this location) 9. Beatty Glass Company (Block 33, lots 10-15 and blocks 34 and 39 in Second Highland Addition, c. 7.5 acres -- all land now owned by Leonard Silver Manufacturing and 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works (lot 564 in Heming's Resurvey, Third Ward -- all land now all land now owned by Tiffin Metal Products) than this but much is parking and it includes a new one-story office building not FHR-8-300A (11/78) 6.

Tiffin Agricultural Works (lots 671, 672, 676, 677 of Heming's Resurvey, corner of included in nomination) Harrison and Water Streets -- all land that goes with this building and owned by 8.Bowman's Distillery(.24 acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- always part of complex) DATE ENTERED 12.Webster Manufacturing Co.(boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in now owned by Clair Forrest in this location) by Hanson at this location) W.C.Hedges Addition --all land now owned by Corinne Hoffman at this location) 1l.Tiffin Art Metal(Blocks 6and 7and Reserve Bin First Highland Addition,c.9acres -- FOR HCRS USE ONLY 13.Hanson Machinery Co.(lots 1 and 2 in Baldwin's Second Subdivision --all land owned lots 31 and 32,less southwest part in Appraiser's Platt of 1910 --Webster owns more 1.Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mil1 (2.36 acres in subdivision of NE&,1ess 244 ft.

2. Hunter, William, Residence (south part of northeast } of section 19 on Riverside Drive, 5. Ohio Lantern Company (lots 1057, 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061 and five feet of lot 1056 of owned by Robert H. Losey at this location) OCT 3 0 1970 RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 17 - 317790 - 4554540 2. Hunter, William, Residence 17 - 317830 - 4554490 3. Mueller Brewery 17 - 317600 - 4554110 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 17 - 317580 - 4554100 5. Ohio Lantern Company 17 - 316970 - 4554180 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 1. Tiffin Waterworks 17 - 316330 - 4552450 8. Bowman's Distillery 17 - 317690 - 4554400 9. Beatty Glass Company 10. Wagner Brothers Bottling Works 17 - 316640 - 4553580 11.

Tiffin Art Metal 17 - 316360 - 4555050 12. Webster Manufacturing Company 17 - 316200 - 4554700 13. Hanson Machinery Company FHR-8-300A (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin DATE ENTERED PAGE UTMs for USGS map FOR HCRS USE ONLY 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 17 - 316290 - 4554200 RECEIVED 1- 7.80 REVIEW UNIT CHIEF OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Inventory CONTROL Send-back Maps Re-submit Property HISTORIAN TECHNICAL Review United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry 2-3-81 Working Number/0-30-79 2634 Photos _ Entered JAN 7 1980 Jifin GLASS COMPA Beatty Glass Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs.of Tiffin) OCT 3 0 1979 Bldg.

#29, photo # / JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio August 1978 Seneca County Tiffin,Ohio dept- b1dg:(1888, and machine shop B1dg. (by 1901) camera pointing southwest East and north side of gatehouse, east side of blowing Beatty Glass Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio (bet. 1901 and 1925) ; camera pointing northwest Bldg. #9, photo # 2 Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 South and east sides of outlet store and stock bldg. Beatty Glass Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs.

of Tiffin) OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Uffice, Tiffin, Ohio & 1925) & warehouse (by 1901); camera southeast JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Tiffin,Ohio Seneca County East and north sides of cutting dept.bldg. (bet.1901 B1dg. #0/, photo #3 Beatty Glass Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 of American Standard); camera pointing northeast Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio West & south sides of glass co. complex (tower is part OCT 3 0 1979 Beatty Glass Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 B1dg.

#9, photo # 5 Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 pointing southeast Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio North and west sides of glass co. complex ; camera is for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000651