Old Tippecanoe Main Street Historic District

Eight blocks of Main Street in Tipp City, Ohio, make up this district of 88 buildings from the 1840s to the 1930s. The street runs west from the old Miami-Erie Canal, where a canal lock and the Tipp Roller Mill mark an industrial east end. Two blocks of commercial buildings follow, including small frame stores and residences that were kept rather than replaced by brick business blocks. Examples include Italianate and Second Empire storefronts, the 1915 Jacobethan Monroe Township Building and Chaffee's Opera Block from the 1860s. A connecting block holds a meeting hall, an 1894 church and a 1938 post office. The western four blocks are residential, with large frame homes and wide porches in Queen Anne, Four Square, Italianate and bungalow styles. Eight buildings are classed as non-contributing and four as intrusions, including a parking lot, a doctor's office, a gas station and a bank. Together the buildings show a canal town that kept adjusting to community needs.