{"nrhp_refnum":"79002764","name":"Octagon, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"297 E. Perry St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tiffin","county":"Seneca County","state":"OH","lat":41.116707285000075,"lon":-83.16802427699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick octagonal house at 97 East Perry Street in Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, built in 1852 by Jeremiah H. Good across from the Heidelberg College campus.","why_significant":"It was built by Jeremiah H. Good, a founder and long-serving faculty member of Heidelberg College who also drew plans for the college's first building, Founders Hall. It is included as one of the Heidelberg College historic resources tied to the college's growth and the variety of architectural styles on and near the campus.","narrative":"Built in 1852, this two-story octagonal brick house sits at the corner of East Market and East Perry Streets in Tiffin, across from the Heidelberg College campus. It has a rubble stone foundation, brick bearing walls, a low-pitched hip roof with a bracketed cornice, and a one-story verandah on three sides. Four chimneys are centrally placed and a fifth sits flush on the west side. A frame addition containing a kitchen and garage reaches back to the alley. Jeremiah H. Good, a founder of Heidelberg College, professor of mathematics and later president of the Heidelberg Theological Seminary, built the house and lived there until his death in 1888. His family stayed until 1907. Later occupants included Mary I. Park, a philosophy professor and the college's first Dean of Women, who lived there from 1930 to 1948. The house was later divided into apartments. It represents the college's early development and architectural variety.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Jeremiah H. Good","architectural_style":"Octagon Mode","criteria":[],"status_note":"Divided into two apartments; interior in poor condition and exterior in fair condition at the time of the inventory. A frame addition containing a kitchen and garage extends to the alley.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.050219-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002764.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002764/c039a21df7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002764/c039a21df7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Octagon,_Heidelberg_University.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Octagon,_Heidelberg_University.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986122","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octagon_(Heidelberg_University)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7754670"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/seneca-county/octagon-the-79002764/"}