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Nomination for Ohio Lantern Company

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,140 words across 13 pages, filed in 1980. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

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The nomination, in full

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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 11. Tiffin Art Metal Company 450 Wall Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 2. Hunter, William, Residence 12. Webster Mfg., a division of Webster 325 Hall Street 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 8. Bowman's Distillery 9. Beatty Glass Company Wagner Bros. Bottling Works PAGE FHR-8-300A RECEIVED Mueller Brewery Tiffin Waterworks Hanson Machinery Company DATE ENTERED Tiffin Agricultural Works (11/78) 60-72 Hudson Street Industries, Inc.

Ohio Lantern Company 40 Harrison Street 250-258 Benner Street Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 255 Riverside Drive 235 Miami Street 146-164 Riverside Drive FOR HCRS USE ONLY Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street 170 Ella Street 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 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 4 PAGE 1 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works Robert H. Losey 255 Riverside Drive 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 37 Clay Street 9. Beatty Glass Company Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co., Inc. Boston, Massachusetts 02100 FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED Clair Forrest Martha Jane Smith Webster Mfg. Tiffin Scenic Studios (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 235 Miami Street Pioneer Real Estate 236 South Washington Street 144 Addison Street The Tiffin Art Metal Co. FOR HCRS USE ONLY 221 Lelar Street 83 West Market Street 102 East Perry Street RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 9 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 2 has been altered to an aluminum sheet.

The original brewery had a cooper's pond located between the main three-story building lot now covers the area. still two-story, has brick bay first story with three double-hung 2/2 windows, plain slip with brackets. Second-story windows are double-hung 6/6 with plain lug stone sill and stone Photos show large open rooms, with no original equipment known to exist. The building is Tiffin Agricultural Works (6) is a three-story brick building in stretcher bond with and 1925 maps, but frame stock shed with brick addition for paint warehouse on 1901 map gone by 1925. Building basically H-shaped with long sections parallel to Harrison Street running 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 FHR-8-300A (11/78) DATE ENTERED in good condition.

FOR HCRS USE ONLY Industrial Buildings of Tiffin building is in fair condition.Interior first floor features carved wood staircase to second The Christ Mueller Residence (4)is a two-story house with truncated hip shingled front and four on the side. The plan shape is irregular, due to additions, and there have been alterations. There is one exterior chimney. The windows are double-hung 6/9 with 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. entablature. Iwo of windows are made smaller to double-hung 1/1. Addition to back of is covered with wood panels. Windows here totally changed to many smaller louvered ones. roof and four wood fluted columns, with balcony on second story. Porch has concrete floor treatment and a flat roof.

The foundation material is brick and rubble stone, and there is There are segmental brick arches over the windows and long section used for machine shop on first floor, wood working on 2nd and 3rd floors; one- Farthest addition has shingle siding and shed roof. The front porch is two-story with hip The Ohio Lantern Company (5) is a two-story brick building with stretcher bond wall separate bays. Many windows have been bricked up but still have brick semi-circular arches house,which was there in190l,is one-story with shed roof and shagwood siding which 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 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 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 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 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 In 1880 the Tiffin Agricultural Works was a joint stock company owning four acres. Steam engines used by the business were manufactured by Loomis and Nyman's Foundry, a local firm 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. In Truck, built by this firm in 1915, is on display in the Seneca County Museum in Tiffin.

The RECEIVED FHR-8-300A Tiffin Wagon Works went out of business in the early 1930s, possibly a casualty of the (11/78) Depression.Various other companies started using space in this building in the late 1920s, Tiffin Industrial Buildings Tiffin's other industries that were organized about this time were the Tiffin Woollen DATE ENTERED garden implements.The Tiffin Tool Co.prospered only a few years before the business still located here;Advance Building Serviceshas shared the building since 1973. FOR HCRS USE ONLY a building that is now part of the Downtown Tiffin Historic District on the employed between 20-25 men. The company may have come because of the oil and gas boom of wagons for the agricultural community and buggies for the affluent of Tiffin.

The Diehl This company had been located on Melmore Street They made molasses juf screw tops, fruit jar caps and wire, jelly glass caps, salt, pepper and sugar 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 listed as producing motorized vehicles like buses, trucks and street sprinklers. The Tiffin manufacturer of agricultural implements.

lanterns,"which.were sold around the world and noted for their reliability.The Ohio National Register;the Tiffin Shoe Factory (1872),also part of the Downtown Tiffin Historic established in Bellaire by Albert Baron in 1838.They produced tubular lanterns,desk lan- UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM ITEM NUMBER PAGE 1 CONTINUATION SHEET Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill (2.36 acres in subdivision of NE 4, less 244 ft. on NE end -- all property now and always part of mill complex) 2. Hunter, William, Residence (south part of northeast k of section 19 on Riverside Drive, 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence (outlots 991-993 of Mueller's Replat of 1880 -- all property 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 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) Addition, c. 1.5 acres - all land now owned by Leonard Silver Manufacturing and owned by Robert H.

Losey at this location) 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 by Hanson at this location) FHR-8-300A included in nomination) (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 7.Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Twp.along Sandusky River -- all land owned always part of complex) 8.Bowman's acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- FOR HCRS USE ONLY DATE ENTERED all property now owned by Tiffin Scenic Studios) 13.Hanson Machinery Co.(lots 1and2in Baldwin's Second Subdivision --all1and owned 9.Beatty Glass Company(B1ock33,1ots 10-15 and blocks34and39 in Second Highland 12.Webster Manufacturing Co.(boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in 3.Mue1ler Brewery(outlott 994 and part of outlots 993 & 995 in Mue1ler'sReplat,1880 -- 1- 7.80 all land now owned by Tiffin Metal Products) 10.

Wagner Bros. Bottling Works (lot 564 in Heming's Resurvey, Third Ward -- all land now RECEIVED less northeast side -- all property that now goes with residence and owned by Bacon) 1l.Tiffin Art Metal (Blocks 6 and 7 and Reserve B in First Highland Addition,C.9 acres 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 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 17 - 316290 - 4554200 RECEIVED FHR-8-300A (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin FOR HCRS USE ONLY DATE ENTERED PAGE UTMs for USGS map 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 Working Number/0-30-79 2634 Photos - Inventory _ ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER KEEPER CONTROL HAER Send-back Maps Re-submit Property HISTORIAN Review TECHNICAL National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Federal Register Entry 2-3-81 1.7.80 Entered JAN 7 1980 United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Ohio Lantern Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio 1885); camera pointing north Bldg.

#5, photon# 4 Seneca County Resources Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Barb Howe Second floor interior of brick building & JAN 7 1980 Ohio Lantern Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1970 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio brick part with sack(bet. 1883-1885) ; camera Building #5, photo # 3 Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources August 1978 pointing south Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Barb Howe North side of concrete block addition(by 1925) and Ohio Lantern Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 B1dg. #5, photo # 2 Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources pointing east Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Barb Hove West side of building (bet.1883 and 1885); camera Ohio Lantern Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs.

of Tiffin) OCT 3 0 1979 Bldg. #5. photo # / Seneca County JAN71980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Augusy 1978 camera pointing northwest Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Tiffin, Ohio South and east sides of building and 1885); Ohio Lantern Co. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio 1885); camera pointing west Bldg- #5, photo # 5 Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Second floor interior of brick building Please refer to the map in the for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000651 Multiple Property Cover Sheet