Wood County Courthouse, Court Street, Bowling Green, OH
Built between 1893 and 1896, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style courthouse was designed by Yost and Packard and constructed by T. B. Townsend to serve as the third courthouse of Wood County, founded in 1820, replacing an earlier courthouse built after the county seat was moved to Bowling Green from Perrysburg in 1870. The courthouse features a red tile hipped roof with multiple dormers, a rusticated limestone block exterior, multiple stone pinnacles, machicolations, gable parapets, arched and rectangular windows, decorative pilasters with ornate capitals, a large 195-foot-tall central clock tower with a stone roof topped with a weather vane and featuring arrowslit windows, flanked by two shorter octagonal towers with ornate carved trim bands below the top row of windows, a front entrance at the base of the tower with a decorative ballustrade and shallow arch flanked by decorative carved trim panels on either side above, and a matching jail to the rear, constructed in 1901-02, and designed by the firm of Fronizer and Andrews with similar architectural features to the courthouse. The courthouse saw a rally held by President William Howard Taft in 1912, Jimmy Hoffa visiting to obtain a marriage license in 1937, and a speech held by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to promote the presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush. The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and saw the interior restored in 1980, with the exterior being restored in 2002. The building continues to house the main court spaces and functions for Wood County, with the jail having been converted into office space after being replaced with a newer facility in 1990.
Wood County Courthouse, Court Street, Bowling Green, OH
Built between 1893 and 1896, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style courthouse was designed by Yost and Packard and constructed by T. B. Townsend to serve as the third courthouse of Wood County, founded in 1820, replacing an earlier courthouse built after the county seat was moved to Bowling Green from Perrysburg in 1870. The courthouse features a red tile hipped roof with multiple dormers, a rusticated limestone block exterior, multiple stone pinnacles, machicolations, gable parapets, arched and rectangular windows, decorative pilasters with ornate capitals, a large 195-foot-tall central clock tower with a stone roof topped with a weather vane and featuring arrowslit windows, flanked by two shorter octagonal towers with ornate carved trim bands below the top row of windows, a front entrance at the base of the tower with a decorative ballustrade and shallow arch flanked by decorative carved trim panels on either side above, and a matching jail to the rear, constructed in 1901-02, and designed by the firm of Fronizer and Andrews with similar architectural features to the courthouse. The courthouse saw a rally held by President William Howard Taft in 1912, Jimmy Hoffa visiting to obtain a marriage license in 1937, and a speech held by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to promote the presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush. The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and saw the interior restored in 1980, with the exterior being restored in 2002. The building continues to house the main court spaces and functions for Wood County, with the jail having been converted into office space after being replaced with a newer facility in 1990.