{"nrhp_refnum":"79002782","name":"Social Science House","other_names":["Sheidler Home","Public Relations House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"266 E. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tiffin","county":"Seneca County","state":"OH","lat":41.11586623300008,"lon":-83.14560542699996,"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 house built around 1890 at 266 E. Market Street on the Heidelberg College campus in Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. Contractor Benjamin F. Sheidler is believed to have built it as a private home.","why_significant":"It is nominated as one of the Heidelberg College Historic Resources, a thematic group of campus properties tied to the college's growth since its founding in 1850. The house contributes to the theme of education and shows the college's chronological development through a variety of building styles. It reflects the college's reuse of a former private home for institutional purposes.","narrative":"Social Science House is a two-story brick building at 266 E. Market Street, on the southwest corner of the Heidelberg College campus in Tiffin, Ohio. It was probably built around 1890 by Benjamin Sheidler, a Tiffin contractor who built several homes in the city's first ward. The house has a square plan, rubble stone foundation, truncated slate roof with bracketed cornice, elliptical windows with radiating voussoirs, and a triangular dormer over the center bay. Its porches have been removed and a one-story frame addition sits at the rear. After decades as a family home, later with a second-floor apartment, it was sold to Heidelberg College in 1959. The college used it as a Public Relations House from 1960 to 1970, then as faculty offices. It is included among the college's thematically related historic resources, which illustrate the institution's growth since 1850 and its architectural development.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Benjamin F. Sheidler (contractor/builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as faculty offices (Social Science House) by Heidelberg College; condition rated good inside and out.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.820391-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79002782.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986136","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/seneca-county/social-science-house-79002782/"}