{"nrhp_refnum":"80003227","name":"Tiffin Agricultural Works","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"40 Harrison St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tiffin","county":"Seneca County","state":"OH","lat":41.12035325800008,"lon":-83.17529093199994,"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 three-story brick industrial building at 40 Harrison Street in Tiffin, Ohio, built in 1873 as a farm implement factory. It is one of thirteen early industrial buildings in Tiffin nominated together.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the building as an example of Tiffin's agricultural-based industry of the 1800s. Smith, Barnes, and Co. built it for making farm implements, and later it housed the Tiffin Wagon Works, which produced wagons and motorized vehicles. Its large open interiors then suited it to warehouse use.","narrative":"Tiffin Agricultural Works is a three-story brick factory at 40 Harrison Street in Tiffin, Ohio. Smith, Barnes, and Co. founded the business in 1858 to make agricultural implements and built this plant in 1873. It produced horse rakes, corn shellers, hay tenders, and brick machines. By 1888 it employed 125 men, with an annual product of $175,000. After the firm went into receivership in 1899, Tiffin Wagon Works took over and made farm wagons, dump wagons, street sprinklers, and later motorized vehicles including buses and trucks. A Tiffin Truck built in 1915 is displayed at the Seneca County Museum. The wagon company closed in the early 1930s, and other firms, notably the Floom-Fleck wholesale grocery from 1927 to 1970, used the space. The H-shaped building has stretcher bond brick walls, brick pilasters, a gable roof, and arched windows, many now bricked up. Its open interior suits warehouse use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Used for warehousing; many windows are bricked up, aluminum siding covers part of the north side, and no original equipment is known to remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.576383-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003227.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986168","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/seneca-county/tiffin-agricultural-works-80003227/"}