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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 11. 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 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 5: Ohio Lantern Company 60-72 Hudson Street 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works Beatty Glass Company Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street Wagner Bros. Bottling Works 250-258 Benner Street PAGE RECEIVED FHR-8-300A Bowman's Distillery Hanson Machinery Company (11/78) DATE ENTERED Tiffin Waterworks FOR HCRS USE ONLY Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 40 Harrison Street 146-164 Riverside Drive 255 Riverside Drive 235 Miami Street 170 Ella Street 1.
Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 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 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 5. Ohio Lantern Co. Corinne M. Hoffman 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 7. Tiffin Waterworks 8. Bowman's Distillery Richard E. Digby 9. Beatty Glass Company Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co., Inc.
144 Addison Street Boston, Massachusetts 02100 PAGE FHR-8-300A RECEIVED (11/78) DATE ENTERED Clair Forrest Martha Jane Smith Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 255 Riverside Drive Tiffin Scenic Studios Webster Mfg. The Tiffin Art Metal Co. 235 Miami Street Pioneer Real Estate 221 Lelar Street 236 South Washington Street Ohio Cities Water Company 83 West Market Street 400 Melmore Street c/o Tiffin Metal Products 102 East Perry Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY 37 Clay 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 7 has been altered to an aluminum sheet. The original brewery had a cooper's pond located between the main three-story building and the stable. This pond, seen on the 1901 insurance map, was gone by 1925 and a parking lot now covers the area.
The Christ Mueller Residence (4) is a two-story house with truncated hip shingled roof, common bond brick walls, and ashlar stone foundation. The house has three bays in still two-story, has brick bay first story with three double-hung 2/2 windows, plain slip house, which was there in 1901, is one-story with shed roof and shagwood siding which Farthest addition has shingle siding and shed roof. The front porch is two-story with hip building is in fair condition. Interior first floor features carved wood staircase to second The Ohio Lantern Company (5) is a two-story brick building with stretcher bond wall Photos show large open rooms, with no original equipment known to exist. The building is and 1925 maps, but frame stock shed with brick addition for paint warehouse on 1901 map gone wooden implements, and final machinery set up on third floor.
By 1901, west end of north story east end of this section used for moulding room and foundry, steam dry kiln, and PAGE FHR-8-300A (11/78) floor. Industrial Buildings of Tiffin DATE ENTERED FOR HCRS USE ONLY in good condition. Tiffin Agricultural Works is a three-story brick building in stretcher bond with RECEIVED OCT 3 0 1979 front and four on the side. The plan shape is irregular, due to additions, and there have Three-light transom above door with plain stone entablature. The second-story front windows are 6/6 (2 windows) and 6/9. Dormer at top of roof has gable roof, shingle siding, and 1/1 horizontal window on each side. garage with shed roof. On northeast side of house, the brick in the second part of house treatment and a flat roof. The foundation material is brick and rubble stone, and there is the windows have been bricked shut.
There are segmental brick arches over the windows and by 1925. Building basically H-shaped with long sections parallel to Harrison Street running long section used for machine shop on first floor, wood working on 2nd and 3rd floors; one- is covered with wood panels. Windows here totally changed to many smaller louvered ones. separate bays. Many windows have been bricked up but still have brick semi-circular arches east-west.
In 1888 first floor used for iron work and finishing, second floor for making roof and four wood fluted columns,with balcony on second story.Porch has concrete floor over them.Part of north side has aluminum siding.Aluminum storage shed on east side and an irregular shape.Foundation is of brick and coursed rubble stone.Brick pilasters and steps.First-floor window on northeast side bricked up and new door cut into it.This UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM ITEM NUMBER 8 CONTINUATION SHEET built a new brewery on River Road in 1854; this is the building that is still standing. the beer but later became only distributors. Prohibition ended the brewing of beer, and business was known as the Grummel Bros. Ice and Beverage Co. In 1925 the Tiffin Scenic Studios Inc.
moved into a part of the building, and they are still there today. Tiffin Scenic Studios was founded by Daniel 0'Connell and set up The main building is now occupied entirely by Tiffin Scenic Studios, a local firm but these are now gone. In the 1940s-50s-and 60s, this housed a PepsiCola distributor and then a concrete burial working shop, and the second floor has recently been converted to a photography studio. This building is sometimes referred to as a malt house, but the maps show it as the stable. covered with a parking lot.
The 1901 map also shows a malt house on the opposite side of the road from the enough so that horses and wagons could get supplies to and from the river, the main source the importance of the river in brewing for Tiffin, the city's other brewery, Hubach's, was by 1881, and he lived here until 1885, when much of his land, including this house, was transferred to Philip Grummel at a sheriff's sale. Many of the sons and relatives of the the southeast corner of Liberty Street and Riverside Drive, not far from this house.
The Grummels took over operation of the brewery between 1887 and 1890, when John Grummel was PAGE FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED FOR HCRS USE ONLY (11/78) a bookkeeper for the brewery and was living in this house.Various members of the family staves..The pond had disappeared by1925(probably with Prohibition?),and the area is now The Christ Mueller Residence was built by Christ Mueller about 1854,probably at Industrial Buildings of Tiffin operations in a downtown location. Soon after, in 1925, they moved into the brewery build- businesses used to share this building with the studios, including beverage distributors, The 1901 insurance map shows a cooper's pond located between the main brewery building and the stable. The brewery made its own barrels for beer and used the pond to soak barrel brewery, along the river bank.
This building had disappeared by 1925, but the foundation is still partially visible. A tunnel which runs from the brewery to the malt house opens onto beer to the river to avoid the tax for transporting it over the road. The tunnel was large OCT 3 0 1979 after Prohibition ended, the Grummels never resumed the operation. From 1924-1942, the vault factory.
The first floor is now used by Tiffin Scenic Studios as a metal and wood- RECEIVED lists the building as Mueller's Brewery.In 1885 Philip Grummel bought the brewery and the harvested'for commercial purposes.The tunnel has since been walled shut at both the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OCT 3 0 1979 INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM Tiffin Industrial Buildings CONTINUATION SHEET who worked at the brewery lived here until about 1915, when there were also some boarders listed for the first time. Part of the building has been used as apartments since that time, and other commercial uses have included the Groman Bros. Coal and Building Materials (1938-1959), and Clair Forrest's law and credit association offices (1962 to present).
More specialized industries were organized in the 1860s, but these still depended terns, brilliant lanterns, wire-cushioned oil cans, flector side lamps, tin hand lamps, shaker tops, and screw tops. In 1889 the company moved to Tiffin, and, at that time, it the 1880s here, but it is not the same scale as the other large companies that came at that had been built between 1883 and 1885 by the Tiffin Tool Co., manufacturers of farm and declined, and the company folded in 1889. When Alfred Baron bought the building in 1889, he that the Ohio Lantern Co. produced a variety of items, the most important being the "Baron Lantern Co. remained in the building until 1949, when the Ohio Power Co. set up their The Standard Roofing and Sheet Metal Supply had moved into the structure by 1970, and it is still located here; Advance Building Services has shared the building since 1973.
District; and the Lewis Diehl Carriage Manufacturing Company (1864), organized to supply building is still standing but no longer has the architectural integrity necessary for the National Register. The Tiffin Agricultural Works (6) was founded by Smith, Barnes, and Co. in 1858 as a south of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. In 1873 the firm constructed this building on that has since been demolished (used to be located on the Sandusky River at Market Street). In 1888 the Agricultural Works employed 125 men, with an annual product of $175,000. Truck, built by this firm in 1915, is on display in the Seneca County Museum in Tiffin.
The Tiffin Wagon Works went out of business in the early 1930s, possibly a casualty of the FHR-8-300A (11/78) Tiffin's other industries that were organized about this time were the Tiffin Woollen FOR HCRS USE ONLY DATE ENTERED primarily on the agricultural economy of the area. The Ohio Lantern Company (5) was first established in Bellaire by Albert Baron in 1838. They produced tubular lanterns, desk lan- garden implements. The Tiffin Tool Co. prospered only a few years before the business wagons for the agricultural community and buggies for the affluent of Tiffin. The Diehl manufacturer of agricultural implements. This company had been located on Melmore Street Harrison Street. They produced horse rakes, corn shellers, hay tenders, and brick machines. In 1880 the Tiffin Agricultural Works was a joint stock company owning four acres.
engines used by the business were manufactured by Loomis and Nyman's Foundry, a local firm sold half interest to Benjamin F. Cockayne of Tiffin. The 1911 history of the county says National Register; the Tiffin Shoe Factory (1872), also part of the Downtown Tiffin Historic Depression. Various other companies started using space in this building in the late 1920s, lanterns,"which.were sold around the world and noted for their reliability.The Ohio Mills (1860s) in a building that is now part of the Downtown Tiffin Historic District on the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE 1 2.
Hunter, William, Residence (south part of northeast 4 of section 19 on Riverside Drive, less northeast side - all property that now goes with residence and owned by Bacon) all property now owned by Tiffin Scenic Studios) now owned by Clair Forrest in this location) W.C. Hedges Addition -- all land now owned by Corinne Hoffman at this location) 6. 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 Smith at this location) 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 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 RECEIVED FHR-8-300A (11/78) 7. Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Twp. along Sandusky River -- all land owned included in nomination) 8.Bowman's Distillery (.24 acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- DATE ENTERED Industrial Buildings of Tiffin FOR HCRS USE ONLY 13.Hanson Machinery Co.(lots 1 and 2 in Baldwin's Second Subdivision -- all land owned 12.Webster Manufacturing Co.(boundary drawn 25feet around old complex of buildings in 1.Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mil1 (2.36 acres in subdivision of NE&,less 244 ft.
4.Mueller, Christ, Residence (outlots 991-993 of Mueller's Replat of 1880 -- all property 1l.Tiffin Art Metal and 7and Reserve Bin First Highland Addition,c.9acres -- 3.Mue1ler Brewery(outlott 994 and part of outlots 993& 995 in Mue1ler's Replat,1880 -- by Hanson at this location) OCT 3 0 197° on NE end -- all property now and always part of mill complex) 5. Ohio Lantern Company (lots 1057, 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061 and five feet of lot 1056 of than this but much is parking and it includes a new one-story office building not always part of complex) 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 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 17 - 316290 - 4554200 FHR-8-300A RECEIVED Industrial Buildings of Tiffin DATE ENTERED Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill (11/78) PAGE UTMs for USGS map FOR HCRS USE ONLY 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 Working Number/0-30-79 2634 Federal Register Entry OTHER ARCHEOLOGIST KEEPER Inventory HAER CONTROL Send-back Maps Re-submit HISTORIAN Review Property National Register Write-up REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF 2-3-81 1-7.80 Photos _ United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service TECHNICAL Tiffin, Ohio March 1978 OCT 3 0 1979 Bldg. #4, photo # Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources camera pointing Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Mueller Residence Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) east Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Northwest and southwest sides of building
i854); for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000651 Please refer to the map in the