{"nrhp_refnum":"80003218","name":"Bowman's Distillery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"215 Riverside Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tiffin","county":"Seneca County","state":"OH","lat":41.12240552000003,"lon":-83.17154711299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick distillery building at 215 Riverside Drive along the Sandusky River in Tiffin, Ohio, probably built between 1873 and 1881. It is one of 13 industrial buildings and related resources nominated together in Tiffin.","why_significant":"It is described as the city's only known distillery still standing. It was probably built for Cyrus Bowman on the site of the earlier Wagner-Brickner Distillery and produced about seventy gallons of whiskey a day in 1886. Its later uses as a soap works, a robe and tanning plant and a furniture company show the shift in Tiffin's industries.","narrative":"Bowman's Distillery is a two-story brick building beside the Sandusky River at 215 Riverside Drive in Tiffin, Ohio. It has common bond brickwork, a gable metal roof, a rusticated stone foundation and double-hung 6/6 windows with radiating voussoirs. It was probably built between 1873 and 1881, since Cyrus Bowman appears in the city directory for this address in 1881 but not in 1873. The distillery replaced the earlier Wagner-Brickner Distillery and, according to an 1886 county history, produced seventy gallons of whiskey a day. Distilling ended around 1890. Later occupants included the Pure Soap and Toilet Company, the Tiffin Robe and Tanning Company from 1920 to 1934, leather finishers from 1936 to 1942, and Riverside Furniture Company from 1956 to 1971. It was later an antiques store. Described as the city's only known surviving distillery, it was included among Tiffin's early industrial buildings. Some first-floor windows have been altered into doors, but the interior remains largely open.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described at the time of nomination as in use as the Gallery Antiques store; the interior is mostly open space and little altered apart from the first-floor changes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.229183-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003218.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003218/498981de48-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003218/498981de48-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowman%27s_Distillery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowman%27s_Distillery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986154","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138673391"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/seneca-county/bowmans-distillery-80003218/"}