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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 235 Miami Street 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 5. Ohio Lantern Company 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 1. Tiffin Waterworks 9. Beatty Glass Company Wagner Bros. Bottling Works PAGE RECEIVED FHR-8-300A (11/78) Mueller Brewery Industries, Inc.
Bowman's Distillery Hanson Machinery Company 40 Harrison Street DATE ENTERED 60-72 Hudson Street 255 Riverside Drive 146-164 Riverside Drive 250-258 Benner Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 170 Ella Street 450 Wall Street Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street 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 4 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works Robert H. Losey 83 West Market Street 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 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 37 Clay Street 9. Beatty Glass Company Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co., Inc. 144 Addison Street Boston, Massachusetts 02100 PAGE FHR-8-300A RECEIVED (11/78) Clair Forrest DATE ENTERED Martha Jane Smith Webster Mfg. Tiffin Scenic Studios Pioneer Real Estate 255 Riverside Drive 235 Miami Street 236 South Washington Street 400 Melmore Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY 221 Lelar Street The Tiffin Art Metal Co. c/o Tiffin Metal Products 102 East Perry 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 7 PAGE 5 building is in fair condition.
Tiffin Art Metal (11) is a complex of one-story brick buildings. The overall con- the American Clay Company and is surrounded by other buildings now. There used to be two separate companies, but when the American Clay moved to Tyler, Texas, the Tiffin Metal took The oldest building of Tiffin Art Metal was built in 1903 and was burned about 1942. It was are double-hung 2/2 with fixed sash and plain lug sill. There is a gable tar-paper roof. original buildings of the American Clay Co. and Tiffin Art Metal. A11 of these buildings connecting have parapets on the front and multi-pane windows. In 1978 Tiffin Metal Products Co. totalled 175,000 square feet. original equipment remaining is the overhead crane in the sheet metal fabricating building.
In 1911 the floor space covered 200,000 square feet, and a new building was added in that corner of Court Street and Jefferson Street and covered 800 square feet. In the spring of 1927, 1929, 1942, and 1944, four assembly plants wereerected on the southeast corner of Wall bond. It is irregularly shaped and has a concrete foundation and shed metal roof. The windows on the first floor have 20 lights, with 6 of them forming an awning window, and plain FHR-8-300A (11/78) DATE ENTERED brick walls with periodic pilasters.There are numerous chimneys in the roof.There are FOR HCRS USE ONLY There are a series of one and two-story brick buildings connecting these two described--the have common bond brick.The rebuilding changed the structure from one to two stories.There is dentil work along the top of the old facade.
Windows are originally fixed sash, four light, The Webster Manufacturing Company (12)is a series of one and two-story brick and The original building has a gable roof with a sawtooth part at the gable. have stone lintels. The sawtooth part of the roof has lines of windows on either side with treatment. The remainder of the brick buildings in the complex were built around 1912. Most of the windows have 30 or more panes of glass set in a metal frame. They have common bond ings has a wood roof with steel joists. 1916 the present machine shop and foundry, with 8854 square feet, was erected. In the years building has an irregular facade, one part being one-story and another part two-story. There is common bond, the newer running bond. Windows are 15 panes, altered from the original. rebuilt after the fire and now part of the old walls still remain.
Both old and new facades of the building is running bond with three bays in the front and three on the side. Windows The first operations of the Hanson Machinery Company (13)were in a building on the are parapets all across the front. There are 21 bays in the front and four on the side. The year. aluminum buildings.T 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 7 shed and gable. An addition in the back of the building has one 12-light window on the street side and many on the side. The addition has running bond wall treatment. It has a shed metal roof with parapets. plain lug stone sills, and gable metal roofs with parapets. There are three bays on the office building front on Miami Street.
The other assembly building lies behind the office complex and can be considered to be additions to the older buildings. Hanson Machinery may still have a milling machine in use that dates from 1920, but PAGE FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED (11/78) FOR HCRS USE ONLY lug sills. The windows on the second floor have 15 panes, with 6 forming an awning window. front: one with a large double wood door, and two windows. The office building is two-story building. Although 2 of the assembly buildings and the office building are newer than 50 years, they are included here because they are such an integral part of the total manufacturins There are four assembly shops and an office building on the opposite corner of the this hasn't been proven. Other than that, there is no original machinery left.
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 Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET $40,000 in twenty days in an effort to induce the company to move to Tiffin. Fifteen acres of land were donated, with an option of an additional fifteen acres. In 1908 the first Tiffin Malleable Iron and Chain Company, and it produced elevating and conveying machinery stalled that conveyed air throughout all the plant. 700 people were employed at this time.
Oregon, Meridian, Mississippi, and Fremont, Ohio, Webster now produces material-handling material is custom built, and, in 1976, the company had sales of about $22 million (half equipment, conveyor chains and components, malleable iron castings, steel tanks, and plate tions were at the corner of Court and Jefferson Streets in downtown Tiffin, and three men were employed. In the spring of 1916, they purchased land on the corner of Wall and Miami shovel was manufactured at the company's plant, and shovels and cranes have continued to be first solid tire trailer for moving heavy machinery.
In 1930 Hanson Machinery produced the crane in its history; it used to import carriers for cranes from Canada, but now makes its while new industries have appeared in the Tiffin area since 1916 (most importantly, General Electric in the late 1940s), these do not meet the age or architectural criteria for the economic heritage and illustrate its transition from the small agricultural trading center needing grist mills to the highly-specialized industrial center, with a varied economy that has allowed the city to whether economic crises relatively well. Products made in Tiffin are now shipped around the world. weldments. FHR-8-300A (11/78) Machinery Company was a partnership until 1918,when it was incorporated.The first opera- own carriers.
DATE ENTERED The above buildings represent the most important old industrial concerns in Tiffin; management structure occurred in 1938,and the company came under the control of the Nord- In 1920 the executive offices mpved back to Chicago.Reorganization of the company's FOR HCRS USE ONLY holt family of Tiffin, which still manages it today. With satellite plants in Portland, The final major industry which located in Tiffin shortly after 1900 was the Hanson first pneumatic tired trailer. They were pioneers in building pneumatic tired, low platform, heavy duty, gooseneck trailers. Since 1950, the firm has added excavator machinery and elevators to their production, and, in 1979, the company manufactured the first entire National Register.
Only a few of the city's industries have now vanished with no archi- tectural reminders: Hubach's brewery, Nyman and Loomis foundry, Tiffin Manufacturing (church Streets and erected a machine shop and foundry building.The business has continued in furniture),so the buildings that are nominated represent a complete portrait of the city's Machinery Company(13).In April 1914,Milton B.and Clifford 0.Hanson,two brothers, from Tiffin) and 550 employees (320 in Tiffin) to produce its bulk-material handling UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 10 PAGE 1 2. Hunter, William, Residence (south part of northeast 4 of section 19 on Riverside Drive, all property now owned by Tiffin Scenic Studios) now owned by Clair Forrest in this location) 5.
Ohio Lantern Company (lots 1057, 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061 and five feet of lot 1056 of 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 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works (lot 564 in Heming's Resurvey, Third Ward -- all land now owned by Robert H. Losey at this location) all land now owned by Tiffin Metal Products) lots 31 and 32, less southwest part in Appraiser's Platt of 1910 -- Webster owns more than this but much is parking and it includes a new one-story office building not included in nomination) by Hanson at this location) FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED (11/78) 7.Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Twp. along Sandusky River -- all land owned 4.
Mueller, Christ, Residence (outlots 991-993 of Mueller's Replat of 1880 -- all property 12.Webster Manufacturing Co.(boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in Industrial Buildings of Tiffin Tiffin Agricultural Works (lots 671,672,676,677 of Heming's Resurvey,corner of 8.Bowman's acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill (2.36 acres in subdivision of NE &,less 244 ft. FOR HCRS USE ONLY 13.Hanson Machinery Co.(lots 1 and 2 in Baldwin's Second Subdivision --all 1and owned 3.Mue1ler Brewery(outlott 994 and part of outlots 993& 995 in Mue1ler's Replat,1880-- on NE end -- all property now and always part of mill complex) 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) always part of complex) 1- 7.80 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE UTMs for USGS map 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 RECEIVED DATE ENTERED (11/78) FOR HCRS USE ONLY 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 17 - 316290 - 4554200 Working Number/0-30-79 2634 Photos - Inventory - Review - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Send-back _ Entered JAN 7 1996 OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST HAER CONTROL HISTORIAN Re-submit Maps Property National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry 1.7.80 TECHNICAL 2-3-81 United States Department of the Interior-Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Tiffin, Ohio Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Bllgg.
#13, photo # 3 JAN 7 1980 Resources August 1978 Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Barb Howe Seneca County bldg.; camera pointing east Henson Machinery Industrial Bldgs. of West and south sides of pattern shop & pattern factory Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio BIdg. #13, photo #2 Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic camera pointing southwest August 1978 Hanson Machinery (Early Industrial Bldgs. of North and east sides of pattern shop & pattern factory Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio B1dg. #13, photo # Seneca County Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic factory; camera pointing northwest August 1978 JAN 7 1980 South and east sides of pattern shop & pattern Hanson Machinery Industrial Bldgs.
of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 B1dg. #13, photo # 5 Resources August 1978 Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Northeast and northwest sides of corner factory assem- Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Seneca County bly bldg; camera pointing southeast Barb Howe JAN 7 1980 Tiffin, Ohio Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Northeast side of office bldg. & factory assembly B1dg. #13,, photo # 4 JAN 7 1980 REsources Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Barb Howe Seneca County Hanson Machinery (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) post 19l44? OCT 3 0 I9/Y Please refer to the map in the for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: _64000651