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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 2 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 11. Tiffin Art Metal Company Tiffin, Ohio 44883 Hunter, William, Residence 12. Webster Mfg., a division of Webster 325 Hall Street 13. Hanson Machinery Company 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 5: Ohio Lantern Company 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 170 Ella Street Bowman's Distillery Beatty Glass Company Wagner Bros. Bottling Works PAGE RECEIVED FHR-8-300A Tiffin Waterworks DATE ENTERED Mueller Brewery (11/78) Industries, Inc.
255 Riverside Drive 60-72 Hudson Street 140-142 Riverside Drive 40 Harrison Street 250-258 Benner Street Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 235 Miami Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street 450 Wall Street UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 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 Pioneer Real Estate Robert H. Losey Tiffin, Ohio 44883 2. Hunter, William, Residence 11. Tiffin Art Metal Roger H. Bacon c/o Tiffin Metal Products 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 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 7. Tiffin Waterworks Ohio Cities Water Company 8. Bowman's Distillery Richard E. Digby 9. Beatty Glass Company Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co., Inc. Boston, Massachusetts 02100 FHR-8-300A RECEIVED Webster Mfg. Martha Jane Smith Tiffin Scenic Studios Industrial Buildings of Tiffin (11/78) Clair Forrest FOR HCRS USE ONLY The Tiffin Art Metal Co. DATE ENTERED 255 Riverside Drive 236 South Washington Street 221 Lelar Street 144 Addison Street 235 Miami Street 102 East Perry Street 83 West Market Street 37 Clay Street 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 pattern storage.
Woodworking done on all three floors of north end of short north-south section of building; sawing on first floor of south end of this section with steam dry room forges and earth floor, tiring room and tire heater in one-story section on north side of west end; west end of three-story section of this part had warehouse on first and second floors, setting up on 3rd floor; east end of this section had warehouse on first floor, way to the Sandusky River at one time, but this section had been demolished by 1901. The interior is now open for warehousing, and no original equipment is known to exist. has an ashlar stone foundation and truncated hip shingle roof. On main building, double front door has wood paneling (not now used). Windows double-hung 1/1 and paired. Windows but with keystone added. Frofn door also has added hip-style hood with decorative woodwork.
has double-hung 1/1 windows with plain slip sills and radiating voussoirs; roof is hip and northeast of main building has double-hung 1/1 windows in concrete walls, concrete foundation reinforced steel which was torn down in 1968. Windows and door in 1878 main pump house Pumping Engine operated by water power with a capacity of 3 million gallons per 24 hours; of cast and wrought iron pipes, two water mains (one 16" and one 12"), 107 hydrants, and 350 put in operation; this was constructed by Focht Bros. of Tiffin and was 75 feet in diameter and 12 feet high; the older 250,000 gallon basin was also used. wood architraves, one with triangular pediment and one with small entablature. All basement windows which would have been half visible above the ground are bricked shut. Originally 8 radiating voussoir; unaltered.
North side has door at basement level that looks original; PAGE FHR-8-300A (11/78) right below windows.Foundation plastered over.Metal chimney.Three-story tower addition Knowles and McGovern pump operated by steam also used, also with capacity of 3 million DATE ENTERED Additions made in 191l,1915,and 1917.1917 addition included 100-foot tall smokestack of FOR HCRS USE ONLY OCT 3 0 1979 on second and third floors. South long end of building then had blacksmith ship with 8 have segmental arches; arcading one course wide around windows. Door also has segmental arch shingled; brick walls. One-story brick addition northwest of main building has double- pipes in the city with the City of Tiffin renting the hydrants. In 1886 there were 15 miles and one rectangular fixed sash window were created from first-floor windows.
Doors have RECEIVED Whie brick dentil work under eaves.Roof gable over door and one on each side over windows. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER transoms are bricked shut. Monitor extends the length of the gable roof, and has metal siding plain stone sills. Another addition which again dates from 1901 to 1925 is located between A wood frame iron-clad warehouse north of the main complex was built before 1901. The interior of the original blow furnace is supported almost totally by wood beams. This pots to obtain molten glass and still use gas heat. Part of the other two-story original (roughly wedge-shaped) with several additions, i.e.
one on the east side to fill in a V-shaped door in the basement on the east side that is reached by a narrow flight of stone steps down 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 PAGE FHR-8-300A (11/78) DATE ENTERED the main two-story building and the additions previously mentioned.It is one-story brick facturer on the original site in the original building. Industrial Buildings of Tiffin of building.Remainder of interior seems unchanged and is just open space. FOR HCRS USE ONLY The Wagner Brothers Bottling Works (10) is a very irregularly-shaped building appears original (and was there in 1901),has windows double-hung 6/6 with plain lug sills and porch with concrete floor.
Concrete vault on south side in basement protrudes above ground level; may have been built when robe and tanning company was here to store furs. ters under the gable ends. 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 is still used by the factory in its original capacity. They employ 18 clay melting on the side. furnace building is two stories and common bond brick. It has a gable metal roof and a stone rebuilding, although some of the 1888 building could remain. There are additions to the blast furnace building on both sides. There are two on Vine Street and one on Fourth ashlar stone. The foor is flat.
There are nine bays in the front of the building and two RECEIVED One brick segmental arches.This building is two stories with tarpaper gable roof and brick pilasters. The windows are primarily double-hung 2/2 with slip sills and segmental brick building has the lehrs which are still used today.This is the only domestic glass manu- UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET with the most important being Floom-Fleck Grocery (1927-1970).
The Floom-Fleck Company was founded in 1917 by August Floom, proprietor of a downtown grocery, and Walter Fleck, who have used the building for storage and warehouse operations since the Wagon Works folded, The Tiffin Waterworks (7) was built on the site of an old flouring mill, one-and-one- under Godfried Diemer until the water pumping station was built. In 1878 the City of Tiffin power, was used by the waterworks. In 1892 the waterworks was still using artesian, deep- only pumping station for the City of Tiffin and was listed as a National Historic Water Landmark by the American Water Works Association as part of the company's centennial Ohio Power Company building on South Monroe Street; this is part of the Downtown Tiffin probably built between 1873 and 1881, since Cyrus Bowman is listed in the city directory in gallons of whiskey per day.
Bowman's Distillery operated until about 1890. The Pure Leather Finishers continued with a similar business here from 1936-1942.
After a variety of commercial uses, including Riverside Furniture Company (from 1956-1971), the building is From the 1880s on, Tiffin's economy has been oriented toward highly-specialized not an easy town for labor unions to operate in, and there is not a large unskilled white or concerns are machine-oriented and not agriculturally-oriented like the industries described and gas here in 1888 to produce more reliable fuel supplies; the completion of a large railroad network with four lines through the City to transport raw and finished goods throughout the country; and the enterprise of various citizens who actively recruited new the most important of these individuals, and his Frost Foundation is still an important for National Machinery's moving to Tiffin in the 1870s from Cleveland; he gave the land, and FHR-8-300A make this an ideal warehouse building.
(11/78) Wagner-Brickner Distillery.In 1886,the county history says that their product was seventy Historic District. DATE ENTERED Industrial Buildings of Tiffin founded a paper jobbing house.They joined to form the wholesale grocery.Other companies asset to the city with its contributions to civic projects.Meshech Frost was responsible FOR HCRS USE ONLY next major occupant was the Tiffin Robe and Tanning Company (1920-1934).A.J.and Jo Pilar celebration in Tiffin in 1978. and operated for the City of Tiffin by the Ohio Cities Water Company.This is still the ITEM NUMBER 8 and the most important of these is now Tiffin Paper Company. The large interior open spaces Waterworks Company pumping station. From 1928 to the present, it has been privately owned Bowman's Distillery (8), the city's only known distillery still standing, was 1881 but not in 1873 for this address.
This distillery was located on the site of the old now used as the Gallery Antiques store. industrial concerns that use skilled labor. This is reflected today in the fact that it is quarter miles southwest of the city. Andrew Lugenbiel built this mill, and it was operated purchased the dam and mill stream for the waterworks. The building was started in that Soap and Toilet Company occupied the building for a few years in the early 1900s, and the business here and invested much of their own time and money in the effort. Meshech Frost is PAGE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 197° NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE 1 on NE end -- all property now and always part of mill complex) all property now owned by Tiffin Scenic Studios) 4.
Mueller, Christ, Residence (outlots 991-993 of Mueller's Replat of 1880 -- all property now owned by Clair Forrest in this location) Smith at this location) by Ohio Cities Water Co. at this location) all land owned by Digby at this location) Addition, c. 7.5 acres -- all land now owned by Leonard Silver Manufacturing and 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 RECEIVED (11/78) 12.Webster Manufacturing Co.(boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in 7.Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Twp.
along Sandusky River -- all land owned included in nomination) Tiffin Agricultural Works (lots 671,672,676,677 of Heming's Resurvey,corner of Harrison and Water Streets -- all land that goes with this building and owned by always part of complex) FOR HCRS USE ONLY 8.Bowman's Distillery(.24 acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- 3.Mueller Brewery(outlott 994 and part of outlots 993 & 995 in Mueller's Replat,1880 -- 13.Hanson Machinery Co.(lots 1 and 2 in Baldwin's Second Subdivision --all land owned by Hanson at this location) DATE ENTERED lots 31and 32,less southwest part in Appraiser's Platt of 1910 --Webster owns more 1- 7. 80 2. Hunter, William, Residence (South part of northeast " of section 19 on Riverside Drive, 5. Ohio Lantern Company (Iots 1057, 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061 and five feet of lot 1056 of 10. Wagner Bros.
Bottling Works (lot 564 in Heming's Resurvey, Third Ward -- all land now W.C. Hedges Addition -all land now owned by Corinne Hoffman at this location) 9. Beatty Glass Company (Block 33, lots 10-15 and blocks 34 and 39 in Second Highland 11. Tiffin Art Metal (Blocks 6 and 7 and Reserve B in First Highland Addition, c. 9 acres - less northeast side --all property that now goes with residence and owned by Bacon) Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mil1 (2.36 acres in subdivision of NE ,1ess 244 ft. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 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 7. 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) DATE ENTERED FOR HCRS USE ONLY PAGE UTMs for USGS map 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 17 - 316290 - 4554200 Working Number/0-30-79 26341 Photos _ Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back _ OTHER KEEPER HAER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST Re-submit Maps HISTORIAN Property Review TECHNICAL National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 2-3-81 BRANCH CHIEF 1.7.80 Entered JAN 7 1990 United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 B1dg. #8, photo no. Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio southwest side (l); camera pointing northeast Bowman's Distillery Industrial Bldgs.
of Tiffin) Southwest and southeast sides of bldg; top of vault on ANTIOUES Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 B1dg. #8, photo # 2 JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe pointing northwest Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio August 1978 Southeast and northeast sides of bldg,; camera Seneca County Bowman's Distillery (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio B1dg. #8, photo # 3 Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 camera pointing east First floor interior of distillery(now antique shop); Bowman's Distillery (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000651 Please refer to the map in the for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet