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FHR-8-300A (11/78) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM FOR HCRS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED OCT 3 0 1979 Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist MI11 255 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 ITEM NUMBER 2 PAGE 1 2. Hunter, William, Residence 260 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 3. Mueller Brewery 146-164 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 140-142 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 5. Ohio Lantern Company 60-72 Hudson Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 40 Harrison Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 7. Tiffin Waterworks 170 Ella Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 8. Bowman's Distillery 215 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 9. 11. Tiffin Art Metal Company 450 Wall Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 12.
Webster Mfg., a division of Webster Industries, Inc. 325 Hall Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 13. Hanson Machinery Company 235 Miami Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 10. Beatty Glass Company Northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Vine Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 Wagner Bros. Bottling Works 250-258 Benner Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 FHR-8-300A (11/78) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM FOR HCRS USE ONLY RECEIVED OCT 3 0 1979 DATE ENTERED Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 4 PAGE 1 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill Pioneer Real Estate 255 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 2. Hunter, William, Residence Roger H. Bacon 260 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 3. Mueller Brewery James F. Kuebler, et. al.
Tiffin Scenic Studios Box 39 / 146 Riverside Drive Tiffin, Ohio 44883 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence Clair Forrest 400 Melmore Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 5. Ohio Lantern Co. Corinne M. Hoffman 236 South Washington Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works Martha Jane Smith 221 Lelar Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 7. Tiffin Waterworks Ohio Cities Water Company 102 East Perry Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 8. Bowman's Distillery Richard E. Digby 37 Clay Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works Robert H. Losey 83 West Market Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 1l. Tiffin Art Metal The Tiffin Art Metal Co. c/o Tiffin Metal Products 450 Wall Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 12. Webster Mfg. Webster Industries, Inc. 325 Hall Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 13. Hanson Machinery Company Hanson Machinery Company 235 Miami Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 9.
Beatty Glass Company Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co., Inc. 144 Addison Street Boston, Massachusetts 02100 FHR-8-300A (11/78) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM FOR HCRS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED OCT 3 0 1979 CONTINUATION SHEET Industrial Buildings of Tiffin ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 4 plain wood lintel and double wood doors. One of first-floor doors has new concrete block porch with concrete floor. Concrete vault on south side in basement protrudes above ground level; may have been built when robe and tanning company was here to store furs. One brick Brick elevator shaft on rear of building (facing river) runs from basement to second floor and has cupola on top. Floor on first floor has been lowered on south end of building.
Remainder of interior seems unchanged and is just open space. Beatty Glass Company (9) has a few original buildings still standing. The main blow furnace building is two stories and common bond brick. It has a gable metal roof and a stone foundation. There are eight bays in the front and four on the side. There are brick pilas- ters under the gable ends. Doors have multi-light fanlight and stilted arch. Windows on Fourth Avenue side are a series of fanlights, multi-light with stilted arch. Some of the transoms are bricked shut. Monitor extends the length of the gable roof, and has metal siding and many windows. Two blast furnaces extend from the roof of the monitor. There are three exterior brick stacks on the Fourth Avenue side. On May 23, 1893 there was a fire in the factory, and it was rebuilt in 1894.
Most of the older buildings probably date from the rebuilding, although some of the 1888 building could remain. There are additions to the blast furnace building on both sides. There are two on Vine Street and one on Fourth Avenue. They have gable metal roofs and metal walls and are one story. These additions were completed between 1901 and 1925. The building north of the blast furnace building, which appears original (and was there in 1901), has windows double-hung 6/6 with plain lug sills and segmental arches. This building is two stories with tarpaper gable roof and brick pilasters. Two additions completed between 1901 and 1925 flank the outlet store facing onto Vine Street. They have running bond wall treatment and pilasters. The one farthest north has double-hung 6/4 windows with plain lug sills of stone and segmental arches.
Gable, shingle roof with monitor is also on this building. The other addition has multi-light windows painted shut and plain stone sills. Another addition which again dates from 1901 to 1925 is located between the main two-story building and the additions previously mentioned. It is one-story brick with hip roof and cupola on top. The windows are the same treatment as the two-story building. A wood frame iron-clad warehouse north of the main complex was built before 1901. The interior of the original blow furnace is supported almost totally by wood beams. This building is still used by the factory in its original capacity. They employ 18 clay melting pots to obtain molten glass and still use gas heat. Part of the other two-story original building has the lehrs which are still used today. This is the only domestic glass manu- facturer on the original site in the original building.
The Wagner Brothers Bottling Works (10) is a very irregularly-shaped building (roughly wedge-shaped) with several additions, i.e. one on the east side to fill in a V-shaped wedge in the original building. The building is two stories with a brick bearing wall construction in stretcher bond. There is a basement, and the foundation is rock-faced plain ashlar stone. The foor is flat. There are nine bays in the front of the building and two on the side. The windows are primarily double-hung 2/2 with slip sills and segmental brick arches, with some smaller and filled-in windows on the west side. There is a double door in the basement on the east side that is reached by a narrow flight of stone steps down from the street, a door on the side of the building facing West Market Street, and a variety of doors on the west side; there is a functional loading door on the east side, also.
This FHR-8-300A (11/78) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR HCRS USE ONLY RECETVED OCT 3 0 1979 DATE ENTERED 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- figuration of the building is irregular. The oldest building of the complex was a part of 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 Iyler, Texas, the Tiffin Metal took The American Clay complex has been partially refaced. The older facing is common bond, the newer running bond. Windows are 15 panes, altered from the original.
Some original windows have 20 panes with stone slip sills. There are 13 bays on the front. The oldest building of Tiffin Art Metal was built in 1903 and was burned about 1942. It was rebuilt after the fire and now part of the old walls still remain. Both old and new facades 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, with plain slip stone sills. There are about 10 bays in the front. Addition on the front 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. There are a series of one and two-story brick buildings connecting these two described -- the 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 Co. totalled 175,000 square feet. The Webster Manufacturing Company (12)is a series of one and two-story brick and aluminum buildings. The original building has a gable roof with a sawtooth part at the gable. The roof on either side of the sawtooth has tar paper. the building. The windows are double-hung 12/28 and swing out at the bottom. The windows have stone lintels. The sawtooth part of the roof has lines of windows on either side with metal hoods. This building was built to make malleable iron chain parts and is still used for the same purpose. The sheet metal fabricating shop is also original and has an overhead crane which is original and still in use. The building has much the same roof and window 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 brick walls with periodic pilasters. There are numerous chimneys in the roof. There are some later additions with metal and aluminum siding. The interior of the two original build- ings has a wood roof with steel joists. The sawtooth roof has skylights. The only 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 year. The first operations of the Hanson Machinery Company (13)were in a building on the 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 1927, 1929, 1942, and 1944, four assembly plants wereerected on the southeast corner of Wall Street and Miami Street. The original machine shop is a two-story brick building in common bond. It is irregularly shaped and has a concrete foundation and shed metal roof. The building has an irregular facade, one part being one-story and another part two-story. There are parapets all across the front. There are 21 bays in the front and four on the side.
The windows on the first floor have 20 lights, with 6 of them forming an awning window, and plain FHR-8-300A (11/78) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR HCRS USE ONLY RECEIVED OCT 3 0 1979 DATE ENTERED CONTINUATION SHEET Industrial Buildings of Tiffin ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 6 firm was sold to Leonard Silver Manufacturing Company, a Boston giftware firm that is a division of Towle Silver. The company is now supposed to be concentrating of high-grade stemware again, reviving the distinctive Tiffin labels and patterns. Meshech Frost was also instrumental in persuading the Brewer Pottery (now a division of American Standard) and Sterling Grinding Wheel Co. to move to Tiffin about 1890.
Brewer Pottery's plant is now the largest vitreous china facility in the United States, and it has the longest continuously operating tunnel kiln in the country (from the 1920s), but, while some of the original buildings remain and are visible, the plant has lost too much of *pLant han tost Boo nucn o8 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, the plant has expanded too much to have the required integrity for the National Register. 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 1900. Three of these industries are still in business. The fourth firm, the Wagner Bros.
Bottling Works (10) is no longer doing business. The building was built in 1901 by Christian and Anthony J. Wagner as the Wagner Brothers Bottling Works. The Wagner brothers were then sharing teb brick house facing West Perry Street immediately north of this building (part of the Fort Ball Historic District), so, for several years, the bottling works' address was the same as their house. Wagner Bros. manufactured and bottled soda water and soft drinks and had the first Coca-Cola franchise in Tiffin. The company was known as the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in the 1940s. Robert H. Losey's vending machine 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 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 Early products included stamped metal ceilings and side walls for store 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 Later products included metal roofing ady rain-carrying plus heating and air conditioning supplites and equipment. The "Tiffin tinsmiths" created, Catholic Church in Tiffin. In 1914 the company moved its facilities to its present location on the west side of Wall Street at First Avenue. In 1927 Tiffin Art Metal developed the "al1-steel" prefabricated poster panel (billboard). In 1960 the Springfield-Green Industries, Inc. purchased the firm.
In 1965 Tiffin Art Metal became a division of Mid-Continent Manufacturing Co. By 1967 Tiffin Art Metal was doing a considerable business in custom and contract manufacturing of structural and light gauge steel sheets for government and industry. In 1975 the name was changed to Hadco, the Tiffin division of ATO, Inc. Presently, the company goes by the name of Tiffin Metal Products. In 1876, Towner Keener Webster opened a three-man shop on Kinzie Street in Chicago to 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 FHR-8-300A (11/78) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE FOR HCRS USE ONLY RECEIVED OCT 3 0 1970 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 10 Less than iare where not derathd PAGE 1 usto 1. 2.P0 1. 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 4 of section 19 on Riverside Drive, less northeast side - all property that now goes with residence and owned by Bacon) 3. Mueller Brewery (outlott 994 and part of outlots 993 & 995 in Mueller's Replat, 1880 -- 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 (Iots 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) 7. Tiffin Waterworks (2.32 acres in Clinton Iwp. along Sandusky River -- all land owned by Ohio Cities Water Co. at this location) 8. Bowman's Distillery (.24 acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- 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 s oary a cod: eangtee) 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works (lot 564 in Heming's Resurvey, Third Ward -- all land now owned by Robert H. Losey at this location) 11. Tiffin Art Metal (Blocks 6 and 7 and Reserve B in First Highland Addition, c. 9 acres - all land now owned by Tiffin Metal Products) 12. Webster Manufacturing Co. (boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in 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) 13. Hanson Machinery Co.
(lots 1 and 2 in Baldwin's Second Subdivision -- all land owned by Hanson at this location) FHR-8-300A (11/78) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR HCRS USE ONLY RECEIVED DATE ENTERED OCT 3 0 1979 Industrial Buildings of Tiffin CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE UTMs for USGS map 1. Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mill 2. Hunter, William, Residence 3. Mueller Brewery 4. Mueller, Christ, Residence 5. Ohio Lantern Company 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 1. Tiffin Waterworks 8. Bowman's Distillery 9. Beatty Glass Company 10. Wagner Brothers Bottling Works 11. Tiffin Art Metal 12. Webster Manufacturing Company 13.
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1.2.80 OTHER HAER Inventory - Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF accept brawam 17.80 BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry 2-3-81 Send-back Re-submit - Entered JAN 71980 United States Department of the Interior - Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Wagner Bottling Works (Early Indust Tiffin, Ohio Barb Howe OCT 3 0 19 August 1977 Heidelberg College Preservation OIf Northwest, southwest, and southeast camera facing northeast Bldg. #10, photo #/ Tiffin Industri al Buildings Resources Seneca County JAN 7 Wagner Bottling Works (Early Indust Tiffin, Ohio Barb Howe OCT 3 0 August 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Off Northwest and southwest sides of bl north B1dg.
#10, photo #2 Tiffin Industrial Buildings Th Resources Seneca County JAN 719 Wagner Bottling Works Early Indust Tiffin, Ohio Barb Howe OCT 3 August 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Off Southeast & northeast sides öf bldg southeast B1dg. #10, photo #3 Tiffin Industrial Buildings Resources Seneca County JAN Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000651