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Nomination for Tiffin Art Metal Company

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 2,058 words across 12 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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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-Kel1er-Bacon Grist Mill 11. Tiffin Art Metal Company Tiffin, Ohio 44883 2. Hunter, William, Residence 12. Webster Mfg., a division of Webster 3. Mueller Brewery Mueller, Christ, Residence 5. Ohio Lantern Company 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 7. Tiffin Waterworks 8. Bowman's Distillery 9. Beatty Glass Company Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street Wagner Bros. Bottling Works 250-258 Benner Street PAGE FHR-8-300A RECEIVED Hanson Machinery Company (11/78) 255 Riverside Drive Industries, Inc.

40 Harrison Street Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 60-72 Hudson Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY 146-164 Riverside Drive DATE ENTERED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 170 Ella Street 235 Miami Street 450 Wall Street 325 Hall 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 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. 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 221 Lelar Street 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 RECEIVED PAGE (11/78) FHR-8-300A Clair Forrest DATE ENTERED Martha Jane Smith Tiffin Scenic Studios Webster Mfg. Webster Industries, Inc. FOR HCRS USE ONLY 255 Riverside Drive Pioneer Real Estate 144 Addison Street c/o Tiffin Metal Products 102 East Perry Street 235 Miami Street The Tiffin Art Metal Co. 83 West Market Street 37 Clay Street 236 South Washington Street UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 5 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 of the building is running bond with three bays in the front and three on the side. Windows 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. All of these buildings connecting have parapets on the front and multi-pane windows. In 1978 Tiffin Metal Products 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 The first operations of the Hanson Machinery Company (13)were in a building on the 1927, 1929, 1942, and 1944, four assembly plants wereerected on the southeast corner of Wall 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 Industrial Buildings of Tiffin (11/78) There are a series of one and two-story brick buildings connecting these two described--the DATE ENTERED building is in fair condition. FOR HCRS USE ONLY Co.tota1led 175,000 square feet. OCT 3 0 1979 The Webster Manufacturing Company (12)is a series of one and two-story brick and the building. The windows are double-hung 12/28 and swing out at the bottom. The windows metal hoods.

This building was built to make malleable iron chain parts and is still used treatment. The remainder of the brick buildings in the complex were built around 1912. Most some later additions with metal and aluminum siding. The interior of the two original build- corner of Court Street and Jefferson Street and covered 800 square feet. In the spring of 1916 the present machine shop and foundry, with 8854 square feet, was erected. In the years Some original windows have 20 panes with stone slip sills. There are 13 bays on the front. rebuilt after the fire and now part of the old walls still remain. Both old and new facades RECEIVED year.

brick walls with periodic pilasters.There are numerous chimneys in the roof.There are Tiffin Art Metal(1l) is a complex of one-story brick buildings.The overall con- with plain slip stone sills.There are about 10 bays in the front.Addition on the front 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 8 firm was sold to Leonard Silver Manufacturing Company, a Boston giftware firm that is a stemware again, reviving the distinctive Tiffin labels and patterns. Pottery's plant is now the largest vitreous china facility in the United States, and it while some of the original buildings remain and are visible, the plant has lost too much of its architectural integrity to be included in the nomination.

Sterling Grinding Wheel is now a division of ITT Abrasive Products, and, again, while its original building is visible, These companies that are not nominated should at least be mentioned so that surveyors know why they were excluded from this comprehensive survey. Four major industrial concerns with buildings remaining located in Tiffin after building (part of the Fort Ball Historic District), so, for several years, the bottling company was here in 1950, his appliance store in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and, after several commercial uses, the building is now vacant. Tiffin Art Metal (11) was founded by Fred W. Conradt, Albert V. Conradt, and George interiors, skylights and ventifltors for barns, factory and metal canopies, marquees and cornices for theatres and hotels.

Many of these stamped metal ceilings are still found in 1914 the company moved its facilities to its present location on the west side of Wall poster panel (billboard). In 1960 the Springfield-Green Industries, Inc. purchased the firm. changed to Hadco, the Tiffin division of ATO, Inc. Presently, the company goes by the name of Tiffin Metal Products. manufacture elevator buckets. The first factory of the Webster Manufacturing Company (12) was built in Chicago in 1882. Between 1907 and 1911, the Commercial Club of Tiffin raised PAGE FHR-8-300A RECEIVED (11/78) DATE ENTERED Industrial Buildings of Tiffin FOR HCRS USE ONLY In 1876,Towner Keener Webster openeda three-man shop on Kinzie Street in Chicago to of American Standard) and Sterling Grinding Wheel Co. to move to Tiffin about 1890. Brewer has the longest continuously operating tunnel kiln in the country (from the 1920s), but, 1900.

Three of these industries are still in business. The fourth firm, the Wagner Wagner Bros. manufactured and bottled soda Kalbfleisch in 1903. The Conradts and their relative, Kalbfleisch, were also involved with Brewer Pottery's management. The art metal factory was on Broad Avenue between Fourth and Street at First Avenue. In 1927 Tiffin Art Metal developed the "al1-steel" prefabricated Tiffin Art Metal was doing a considerable business in custom and contract manufacturing of Christian and Anthony J. Wagner as the Wagner Brothers Bottling Works. The Wagner brothers were then sharing teh brick house facing West Perry Street immediately north of this water and soft drinks and had the first Coca-Cola franchise in Tiffin. The company was plus heating and air conditioning supplies and equipment.

The "Tiffin tinsmiths" created structural and light gauge steel sheets for government and industry. In 1975 the name was Meshech Frost was also instrumental in persuading the Brewer Pottery(now a division In 1965 Tiffin Art Metal became a division of Mid-Continent Manufacturing Co.By 1967 know as the Coca-Cola Bottling Co.in the 1940s.Robert H.Losey's vending machine 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 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) 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence (outlots 991-993 of Mueller's Replat of 1880 -- all property 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. 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) than this but much is parking and it includes a new one-story office building not FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED (11/78) included in nomination) 7.Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Twp.along Sandusky River -- all land owmed 12.Webster Manufacturing Co.(boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in now owned by Clair Forrest in this location) 8.Bowman's acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- 1.Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mil1 (2.36 acres in subdivision of NE ,less 244 ft.

by Hanson at this location) 1l.Tiffin Art and 7 and Reserve Bin First Highland Addition,c.9acres -- lots 31and 32,less southwest part in Appraiser's Platt of 1910--Webster owns more FOR HCRS USE ONLY 3.Mue1ler 994andpartof outlots 993& 995 in Mue1ler'sReplat,1880-- OCT 3 0 197° 1. 7.80 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 13. Hanson Machinery Co. (lots 1 and 2 in Baldwin's Second Subdivision -- all land owned RECEIVED 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 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 17 - 316290 - 4554200 FHR-8-300A RECEIVED DATE ENTERED (11/78) FOR HCRS USE ONLY PAGE UTMs for USGS map 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 Working Number/0-30-79 2634 Photos _ Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Re-submit - OTHER KEEPER CONTROL ARCHEOLOGIST HAER Maps Send-back HISTORIAN Property Review United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register Write-up BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry 2-3-81 1.7.80 Entered JAN 7 1980 TECHNICAL Tiffin Art Metal Cor (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffi Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Bldg.

#2, photo # 3 JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic South and east sides of finished produets and material Seneca County August 1978 warehouse 1925); camera pointing northwest METAL TiFFiN A DIVISION + ATO PRODUCTS Tiffin, Ohio (by 1925) ; camera pointing northwest Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic East side of finished products and materials warehouse Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio August 1978 Tiffin Art Metal Industrial Bldgs. of Bldg. #h, Photo # 2 PUTNAM Tiffin Art Metal (Early Industrial Bldgs.

of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberge College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Seneca County Resources JAN71980 Barb Howe August 1978 Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic South and east sides of warehouse (by i925) and sheet pointing northwest metal stamping works(post 19l2,part 1903) ; camera for this property Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000651 Multiple Property Cover Sheet