Northeast Tiffin Historic District

Northeast Tiffin is a compact residential neighborhood of 56 houses on about 15 acres, laid out along Clinton Avenue, Ohio Avenue and Hunter Street. Most homes were built between 1883 and the 1930s on land once owned by Clarinda Hunter and later subdivided by Myers, Stalter, Bunn and other local landowners. David Stalter gave the half-acre park at the district's hub to the city in 1905. The housing includes brick Victorian-era houses, two-story frame homes with hipped roofs and dormers, and what is described as the city's best collection of bungalows, including 87 Clinton, which architect Charles Ernst may have designed for himself. Uniform setbacks and long rows of trees give the area a planned, subdivision-like character. Many Heidelberg College professors and staff lived here from the early twentieth century onward. The neighborhood has never had commercial or institutional activity and has seen few changes, with one ranch-style house the only obvious intrusion.