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Nomination for Tiffin Agricultural Works

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 3,222 words across 14 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 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 11. Tiffin Art Metal Company 450 Wall Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 Hunter, William, Residence 12. Webster Mfg., a division of Webster Industries, Inc. Mueller, Christ, Residence 5. Ohio Lantern Company 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 1. Tiffin Waterworks 8. Bowman's Distillery 9. Beatty Glass Company 10. Wagner Bros.

Bottling Works 250-258 Benner Street PAGE FHR-8-300A RECEIVED DATE ENTERED Mueller Brewery (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin Hanson Machinery Company 255 Riverside Drive 60-72 Hudson Street 146-164 Riverside Drive 40 Harrison Street 235 Miami Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY 170 Ella Street 325 Hall 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 INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM 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 400 Melmore Street 235 Miami 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. 144 Addison Street Boston, Massachusetts 02100 PAGE RECEIVED FHR-8-300A (11/78) Clair Forrest Martha Jane Smith Tiffin Scenic Studios DATE ENTERED Webster Mfg. 255 Riverside Drive 102 East Perry Street Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 236 South Washington Street The Tiffin Art Metal Co.

Pioneer Real Estate FOR HCRS USE ONLY 221 Lelar Street c/o Tiffin Metal Products UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINA TION FORM Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 has been altered to an aluminum sheet. 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 front and four on the side. The plan shape is irregular, due to additions, and there have 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 is covered with wood panels. Windows here totally changed to many smaller louvered ones.

floor - 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 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 DATE ENTERED (11/78) in good condition. FOR HCRS USE ONLY lot now covers the area. are 6/6(2 windows)and 6/9.Dormer at top of roof has gable siding,and The original brewery had a cooper's pond located between the main three-story building 1/1 horizontal window on each side. entablature. Iwo of windows are made smaller to double-hung 1/1.

Addition to back of house, which was there in 1901, is one-story with shed roof and shagwood siding which extends over part of main house. Further addition made between 1901 and 1925 is wood frame roof and four wood fluted columns, with balcony on second story. Porch has concrete floor building is in fair condition. Interior first floor features carved wood staircase to second treatment and a flat roof. The foundation material is brick and rubble stone, and there is 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- Three-light transom above door with plain stone entablature. The second-story front windows 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 and the stable. This pond, seen on the 1901 insurance map, was gone by 1925 and a parking JAN71980 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 section of building; sawing on first floor of south end of this section with steam dry room on second and third floors.

South long end of building then had blacksmith ship with 8 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 front door has wood paneling (not now used). Windows double-hung 1/1 and paired. Windows 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; pipes in the city with the City of Tiffin renting the hydrants.

In 1886 there were 15 miles 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 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 PAGE FHR-8-300A Knowles and McGovern pump operated by steam also used, also with capacity of 3 million (11/78) DATE ENTERED While brick dentil work under eaves.Roof gable over door and one on each side over windows.

FOR HCRS USE ONLY Additions made in 191l,1915,and 1917.1917 addition included 100-foot tal1 smokestack of windows and 1 door across front (east side).Second-floor front has double door with has double-hung l/l windows with plain slip sills and radiating voussoirs; roof is hip and OCT 3 0 1979 has an ashlar stone foundation and truncated hip shingle roof. On main building, double have segmental arches; arcading one course wide around windows. Door also has segmental arch butwith keystone added. Frofn door also has added hip-style hood with decorative woodwork. hung 2/2 windows with plain slip sills and radiating voussoirs; hip shingled roof. Addition and 12 feet high; the older 250,000 gallon basin was also used. Bowman's Distillery (8) is a two-story brick building in common bond with a gable radiating voussoir; unaltered.

North side has door at basement level that looks original; to the east end of the northern long section of the building. Building extended all the interior is now open for warehousing, and no original equipment is known to exist. shingled; brick walls. One-story brick addition northwest of main building has double- gallons per hour; these are no longer in the building.

In 1880 there were 14 miles of water RECEIVED right below windows.Foundation plastered over.Metal chimney.Three-story tower addition Brickwork under gables is arcading one course wide in pointed arch style.Water table level voussoirs and plain slip sills.Two first-floor windows in front are brickedup.Two doors and one rectangular fixed sash window were created from first-floor windows.Doors have UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES OCT 3 0 1979 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 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 Tiffin's other industries that were organized about this time were the Tiffin Woollen Mills (1860s) in a building that is now part of the Downtown Tiffin Historic District on the National Register. 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 Tiffin Wagon Works went out of business in the early 1930s, possibly a casualty of the Depression. Various other companies started using space in this building in the late 1920s, FHR-8-300A RECEIVED (11/78) Tiffin Industrial Buildings DATE ENTERED building is still standing but no longer has the architectural integrity necessary for the still located here;Advance Building Services has shared the building since 1973.

FOR HCRS USE ONLY primarily on the agricultural economy of the area.The Ohio Lantern was first The Tiffin Agricultural Works founded by Smith,Barnes,and Co.in 1858 asa ITEM NUMBER firm (1938-1959), and Clair Forrest's law and credit association offices (1962 to present). established in Bellaire by Albert Baron in 1838. They produced tubular lanterns, desk lan- terns, brilliant lanterns, wire-cushioned oil cans, flector side lamps, tin hand 1amps, employed between 20-25 men. The company may have come because of the oil and gas boom of lanterns," which were sold around the world and noted for their reliability. 1899 the firm went into receivership, and Tiffin Wagon Wroks bought the business. They made Truck, built by this firm in 1915, is on display in the Seneca County Museum in Tiffin.

The molasses jug screw tops, fruit jar caps and wire, jelly glass caps, salt, pepper and sugar National Register; the Tiffin Shoe Factory (1872), also part of the Downtown Tiffin Historic listed as producing motorized vehicles like buses, trucks and street sprinklers.

The Tiffin PAGE wagons for the agricultural community and buggies for the affluent of Tiffin.The Diehl District;and the Lewis Diehl Carriage Manufacturing Company(1864),organized to supply 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 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- Waterworks Company pumping station.

From 1928 to the present, it has been privately owned and operated for the City of Tiffin by the Ohio Cities Water Company. This is still the 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 Tiffin's only other historic building relating to public utility service is the 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 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 now used as the Gallery Antiques store.

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 FHR-8-300A Historic District. (11/78) make this an ideal warehouse building.

Wagner-Brickner Distillery.In 1886,the county history says that their product was seventy DATE ENTERED with the most important being Floom-Fleck Grocery(1927-1970).The Floom-Fleck Company FOR HCRS USE ONLY celebration in Tiffin in 1978. 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 industrial concerns that use skilled labor. This is reflected today in the fact that it is The factors that produced this change in the economy were: the discovery of oil ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 4 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 next major occupant was the Tiffin Robe and Tanning Company (1920-1934). A.J. and Jo Pilar business here and invested much of their own time and money in the effort. Meshech Frost is asset to the city with its contributions to civic projects. Meshech Frost was responsible founded a paper jobbing house.They joined to form the wholesale grocery.Other companies UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET on NE end -- all property now and always part of mill complex) 2. Hunter, William, Residence (south part of northeast 4 of section 19 on Riverside Drive, 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) 5. Ohio Lantern Company (lots 1057, 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061 and five feet of lot 1056 of 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 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 included in nomination) FHR-8-300A (11/78) 12.Webster Manufacturing Co.(boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 13.Hanson Machinery Co.(lots 1 and 2 in Baldwin's Second Subdivision -- all land owned 10.Wagner Bros.Bottling Works (lot 564 in Heming's Resurvey, Third Ward -- all land now 7.Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Twp.along Sandusky River -- all land owned 6.Tiffin Agricultural Works (lots 671, 672, 676, 677 of Heming's Resurvey, corner of always part of complex) FOR HCRS USE ONLY DATE ENTERED 8.Bowman's acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- 3.Mue1ler Brewery(outlott 994 and part of outlots 993 & 995 in Mueller's Replat,1880 -- Smith at this location) by Hanson at this location) 1.Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mil1 (2.36 acres in subdivision of NE&,less 244 ft.

11.Tiffin Art 6 and 7and Reserve Bin First Highland Addition,c.9 acres -- ITEM NUMBER PAGE 1 W.C. Hedges Addition --all land now owned by Corinne Hoffman at this location) Harrison and Water Streets -- all land that goes with this building and owned by 9. Beatty Glass Company (Block 33, lots 10-15 and blocks 34 and 39 in Second Highland than this but much is parking and it includes a new one-story office building not RECEIVED less northeast side -- all property that now goes with residence and owned by Bacon) 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 FHR-8-300A RECEIVED (11/78) DATE ENTERED PAGE UTMs for USGS map FOR HCRS USE ONLY Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 Working Number/0-30-79 2634 Photos _ Inventory - Federal Register Entry OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL HAER Re-submit Send-back HISTORIAN Maps Property Review National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT CHIEF 2-3-81 1-7.80 Entered JAN 7 1980 TECHNICAL United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 March: 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Olio freight station(bet. 1901 & 1925); cam. northwest B1dg. #b, photo # / Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Tiffin Agricultural Works (Early Industrial Bldgs.

of South and east sides of warehouse and motor Tiffin, Ohio March 1978 OCT 3 0 1979 B1dg. #6, photo # 2 JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Seneca County pointing northwest Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Tiffin Agricultural Works (Early Industrial Bldgs. of OCT 3 0 1979 March 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio parking/warehouse bldg-(both 1873); cam. southeast B1dg. #6, photo # 3 JAN 7 1980 Resources Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Barb Howe Tiffin Agricultural Works (Early Industriah Bldgs.of Seneca County North and west sides of motor/warehouse bldg, and auto Tiffin, Ohio ALL GREEN CUT ASPARAGUS SPEARS Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 B1dg.

#6, photo #4 JAN 7 1980 Resources pointed west Seneca County Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Barb Howe Interior 2nd floor of south long bldg.; camera Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000651 for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Please refer to the map in the