{"nrhp_refnum":"79001945","name":"Miami Street Grade School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"155 Miami St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tiffin","county":"Seneca County","state":"OH","lat":41.11837715400003,"lon":-83.18451592299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Gothic-style brick grade school at 155 Miami Street in Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, built in 1884 to designs credited to William H. Hollenberger. It is now the main building of Tiffin University.","why_significant":"The revised statement calls it an excellent local example of 1880s Gothic Revival applied to an educational building, one of very few in the area. It is also one of only two surviving nineteenth-century public grade schools in Tiffin and reflects the value placed on education in a small county seat before the city's industrial boom.","narrative":"Built in 1884 on Miami Street in Tiffin, Ohio, this three-story brick building served as a grade school for the city's Third Ward until 1956. It has a slate truncated hip roof with gable dormers topped by finials, mullioned windows with cut stone lintels, a rock-faced ashlar foundation, and entrance arches inscribed with the date 1884. Inside, the original woodwork has been kept largely intact. Its significance rests on its architecture: it is described as an excellent local example of 1880s Gothic Revival applied to a school, a style the community otherwise used mainly for churches, with Heidelberg College's College Hall as the only other local educational example. It was built before Tiffin's industrial growth, when the town was a small rural county seat. After the school board abandoned it in 1956, Tiffin University bought it as the first property of a permanent campus, and it remains the university's main building.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"William H. Hollenberger","architectural_style":"Gothic (Gothic Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in educational use as the main building of Tiffin University's campus; the interior woodwork is largely intact and the basement has been remodeled as a snack bar and lounge.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.000403-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001945.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001945/c75f7b0bd9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001945/c75f7b0bd9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miami_Street_Grade_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miami_Street_Grade_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991279","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138673014"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/seneca-county/miami-street-grade-school-79001945/"}