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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 Tiffin, Ohio 44883 2. Hunter, William, Residence 12. Webster Mfg., a division of Webster Industries, Inc. 325 Hall Street 3. Mueller Brewery Mueller, Christ, Residence 5. Ohio Lantern Company 6. Tiffin Agricultural Works 9. Beatty Glass Company 10. Wagner Bros. Bottling Works PAGE RECEIVED FHR-8-300A Tiffin Waterworks Bowman's Distillery DATE ENTERED 255 Riverside Drive (11/78) 40 Harrison Street Hanson Machinery Company 146-164 Riverside Drive Industrial Buildings of Tiffin 250-258 Benner Street 60-72 Hudson Street 235 Miami Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY 170 Ella Street 450 Wall Street 1.
Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist MIll 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 INVENTORY -- 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 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 7. Tiffin Waterworks 8. Bowman's Distillery Richard E. Digby 9. Beatty Glass Company Leonard Silver Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts 02100 PAGE RECEIVED FHR-8-300A DATE ENTERED Clair Forrest Martha Jane Smith (11/78) Tiffin Scenic Studios Webster Industries, Inc. 236 South Washington Street 255 Riverside Drive Industrial Buildings of Tiffin Pioneer Real Estate Webster Mfg. Roger H. Bacon Ohio Cities Water Company 235 Miami Street 144 Addison Street 83 West Market Street 221 Lelar Street c/o Tiffin Metal Products 102 East Perry Street FOR HCRS USE ONLY 37 Clay Street The Tiffin Art Metal Co. 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 building is in fair condition. 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 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 Co. totalled 175,000 square feet. The Webster Manufacturing Company (12)is a series of one and two-story brick and 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 bond. 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 year.
(11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin brick walls with periodic pilasters.There are numerous chimneys in the roof.There are DATE ENTERED FOR HCRS USE ONLY There are a series of one and two-story brick buildings connecting these two described--the of the windows have 30 or more panes of glass set in a metal frame.They have common bond Tiffin Art Metal is a complex of one-story brick buildings.The overall con- There are 13 bays on the front. The sawtooth part of the roof has lines of windows on either side with treatment. The remainder of the brick buildings in the complex were built around 1912. Most 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 1927, 1929, 1942, and 1944, four assembly plants wereerected on the southeast corner of Wall building has an irregular facade, one part being one-story and another part two-story. There rebuilt after the fire and now part of the old walls still remain. Both old and new facades of the building is running bond with three bays in the front and three on the side. Windows are parapets all across the front. There are 21 bays in the front and four on the side.
The the building.The windows are double-hung 12/28 and swing out at the bottom.The windows have common bond brick.The rebuilding changed the structure from one to two stories.There have stone lintels.T 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 8 8 PAGE 6 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 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. Three of these industries are still in business. The fourth firm, the Wagner 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 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 In 1876, Towner Keener Webster opened a three-man shop on Kinzie Street in Chicago to FHR-8-300A (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin Meshech Frost was also instrumental inpersuading the Brewer Pottery(now a division FOR HCRS USE ONLY DATE ENTERED of American Standard) and Sterling Grinding Wheel Co. to move to Tiffin about 1890. Brewer its architectural integrity to be included in the nomination. Sterling Grinding Wheel is works' address was the same as their house. Wagner Bros.
manufactured and bottled soda Kalbfleisch in 1903. The Conradts and their relative, Kalbfleisch, were also involved with cornices for theatres and hotels. Many of these stamped metal ceilings are still tound 1n Street at First Avenue. In 1927 Tiffin Art Metal developed the "all-steel" prefabricated 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 division of Towle Silver. The company is now supposed to be concentrating of high-grade Christian and Anthony J. Wagner as the Wagner Brothers Bottling Works. The Wagner brothers 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 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 RECEIVED downtown Tiffin stores. Four major industrial concerns with buildings remaining located in Tiffin after of Tiffin Metal Products. known as the Coca-Cola Bottling Co.in the 1940s.Robert H.Losey's vending machine Bros.Bottling Works (10) isno longer doing business.The building was built in 1901 by UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND RECREATION SERVICE RECEIVED OCT 3 0 1979 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET of land were donated, with an option of an additional fifteen acres. In 1908 the first factory unit was built in Tiffin at the present Hall Street site.
The factory was called the stalled that conveyed air throughout all the plant.700 people were employed at this time. Oregon, Meridian, Mississippi, and Fremont, Ohio, Webster now produces material-handling material is custom built, and, in 1976, the company had sales of about $22 million (half equipment, conveyor chains and components, malleable iron castings, steel tanks, and plate The final major industry which located in Tiffin shortly after 1900 was the Hanson tions were at the corner of Court and Jefferson Streets in downtown Tiffin, and three men were employed. In the spring of 1916, they purchased land on the corner of Wall and Miami Streets and erected a machine shop and foundry building. The business has continued in platform, heavy duty, gooseneck trailers.
Since 1950, the firm has added excavator machinery and elevators to their production, and, in 1979, the company manufactured the first entire crane in its history; it used to import carriers for cranes from Canada, but now makes its The above buildings represent the most important old industrial concerns in Tiffin; while new industries have appeared in the Tiffin area since 1916 (most importantly, General Electric in the late 1940s), these do not meet the age or architectural criteria for the tectural reminders: Hubach's brewery, Nyman and Loomis foundry, Tiffin Manufacturing (church economic heritage and illustrate its transition from the small agricultural trading center needing grist mills to the highly-specialized industrial center, with a varied economy that now shipped around the world.
FHR-8-300A has allowed the city to whether economic crises relatively well.Products made in Tiffin are Industrial Buildings of Tiffin management structure occurred in 1938,and the company came under the control of the Nord- own carriers. DATE ENTERED In 1920 the executive offices mpved back to Chicago.Reorganization of the company's (11/78) FOR HCRS USE ONLY $40,000 in twenty days in an effort to induce the company to move to Tiffin. Fifteen acres equipment and component parts and steel storage tanks and fabrications. Much of the shovel was manufactured at the company's plant, and shovels and cranes have continued to be cubic yard gasoline-powered shovel in the United States. In 1928 they manufactured their first pneumatic tired trailer.
They were pioneers in building pneumatic tired, low Only a few of the city's industries have now vanished with no archi- Tiffin Malleable Iron and Chain Company, and it produced elevating and conveying machinery and sprocket chains. The 1911 county history relates that a compressed air system was in- furniture), so the buildings that are nominated represent a complete portrait of the city's weldments. National Register. Machinery Company was a partnership until 1918, when it was incorporated.The first opera- Machinery Company (13). In April 1914,Milton B.
and Clifford 0.Hanson, two brothers, from Tiffin) and 550 employees (320 in Tiffin) to produce its bulk-material handling 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 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) 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 Harrison and Water Streets -- all land that goes with this building and owned by 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 all land now owned by Tiffin Metal Products) 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 (11/78) Industrial Buildings of Tiffin DATE ENTERED 8.Bowman's Distillery (.24 acres along Sandusky River in Mueller's Subdivision of 1880 -- 12.Webster Manufacturing Co.(boundary drawn 25 feet around old complex of buildings in 4.
Mueller, Christ, Residence (outlots 991-993 of Mueller's Replat of 1880 -- all property included in nomination) FOR HCRS USE ONLY Tiffin Agricultural Works (lots 671,672,676,677 of Heming's Resurvey,corner of 7.Tiffin Waterworks(2.32acresin Clinton Twp.along Sandusky River --all 1and owned 13.Hanson Machinery Co.(lots 1 and 2in Baldwin's Second Subdivision --all land owned Smith at this location) Hedges-Hunter-Keller-Bacon Grist Mil1(2.36 acres in subdivision of NE 4,less 244 ft. 11.Tiffin Art Metal(Blocks 6 and7and Reserve B in First Highland Addition,c.9 acres- owned by Robert H. Losey at this location) RECEIVED always part of complex) !.7.80 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 PAGE UTMs for USGS map 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 1l. Tiffin Art Metal 17 - 316360 - 4555050 12. Webster Manufacturing Company 17 - 316200 - 4554700 13. Hanson Machinery Company FHR-8-300A RECEIVED Industrial Buildings of Tiffin (11/78) DATE ENTERED FOR HCRS USE ONLY 17 - 317370 - 4554180 17 - 316690 - 4554420 17 - 316290 - 4554200 Working Number/0-30-79 5634 Photos _ 1.
7.80 Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up Re-submit - OTHER KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST CONTROL HAER Send-back Maps Property HISTORIAN Review BRANCH CHIEF United States Department of the Interior -Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Federal Register Entry 2-3-81 Entered JAN 7 1980 TECHNICAL Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Bldg. #, photo # 4 Resources Barb Howe JAN71980 pointing northeast Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Seneca County West side of sheet metal & erecting dept.; camera Webster Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) August 1978 Webster Mfg. (Early Industrial Buildings of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Building #E6, photo no.
3 JAN71980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Seneca County August 1978 North side of malleable iron foundry (i) and sheet metal and erecting dept (r); camera southwest Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio 5 TON Webster Mfg. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of -iffin) OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic August 1978 Seneca County erecting dept.; camera pointing west Interior of grey iron foundry chain shop)with overhead crane from sheet metal & Tiffin,Ohio Bldg. #-12photo # // 2010N Webster Mfg- (Early Industrial Bldgs.
Of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic camera pointing east August 1978 Interior of grey iron foundry (now chain shop); Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Seneca County Webster Mfg. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic pointing north Seneca County Interior of sheet metal & erecting dept.; camera August 1978 Bldg. #5, photo # 9 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Webster Mfg. (Early Industrial Bldgs.
of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 JAN 7 1980 Resources Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Interior of machine shop; camera pointing north August 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Seneca County Barb Howe STOP Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 JAN 7 1980 Resources Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic pointing west August 1978 East and north sides of grey iron foundry (now chain Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Seneca County Barb Howe shop), new connection, and machine shop; camera Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic north side of grey iron foundry; camera south August 1978 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio West side of sheet metal & erecting dept.(l) and Webster Mfg. ( Early Industrial Bldgs.
of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio JAN 7 1980 Resources Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Seneca County August 1978 Barb Howe B1dg. #, photo # 5 dept. (1925 map); camera facing northwest East side of wood pattern shop, grinding roon, shipping Webster Mfg. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 B1dg. #, photo # 2 JAN 7 1980 Resources August 1978 camera pointing northwest Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Seneca County East side (north end) of malleable iron foundry; Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Barb Howe Webster Mfg. (Early Industrial Bldgs. of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Bldg.
#/5, photo # JAN 7 1980 Resources Barb Howe August 1978 Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic camera pointing southwest Seneca County East and north sides of malleable iron foundry; Webster Mig. (Early Industrial Bldgss of Tiffin) Tiffin, Ohio OCT 3 0 1979 Heidelberg College Preservation Office, Tiffin, Ohio Seneca County JAN 7 1980 Resources pointing northeast Barb Howe August 1978 Tiffin Industrial Buildings Thematic Interior of malleable iron foundry (1907-1908) ; camera Bldg. #B, photo # 12 for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000651