Nomination for Williams County Courthouse

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) NAME AND/ OR HISTORIC: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: 5 Delbert L.

Latta (Check One) X Building - In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 1973 Bryan 171 Religious LOCATION CATEGORY Commercial OWNERSHIP STATUS Site STATE Both Military Restricted ACCESSIBLE Government Educational Agricultural Private District Unoccupied Federal Private Residence Yes: CLASSIFICATION Entertainment Being Considered COUNTY: Museum CODE Park Structure Public Ohio COMMON: Industrial Williams County Courthouse Main and High Streets Williams County Object Public Acquisition: OWNER OF PROPERTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Scientific STREET AND NUMBER: Will TO THE PUBLIC CITY OR TOWN: ENTRY NUMBER DESCRIPTION X] Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered - Moved Ex Original Site above the top story.

The roof of the building is slate and red tile, the clock with four faces, one on each side of the tower, which strikes the APR 2 5 1973 CONDITION hours. style. NATIONAL Ruins REGISTER used until recently. The north and south stairs leading to the second floor are notable Fair decorative details.Of the four larger towers, two are rounded and two and the ceiling in the common pleas courtroom has been lowered.Another since it was built.The ground plan of the building is a square with alteration is the completion of the fourth floor which had never been (Check One) Good interior features. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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roofs of the other towers are red tile. The central tower encloses a three lower stories are formed by massive pillars which support the central tower has a copper-covered pyramidical roof, and the cone-shaped The building is four stories tall with a large square central tower rising The corners of the traverse corridors of the are square.These towers are characteristic of the Romanesque Revival RECEIVED PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian: X] 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) -] Urban Planning STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

Williams County, named for David Williams, one of Major Andre's captors, county seat. In 1840, after a big controversy, the county seat was auditor of Ohio, for the original courthouse. The present courthouse This imposing structure, where noted jurists such as John M. Killits, who later became a Federal District Judge of Toledo, have presided, is still in use as the seat of government in Williams County, Ohio. 1890 Conservation Architecture Commerce losophy Communications Engineering REGISTER Literature Science NATIONAL Transportation Aboriginal Prehistoric Education SIGNIFICANCE Religion/Phi Music itarian permanent buildings in four years. Theater Landscape and Company to prepare the original drawings and specifications for the Industry Sculpture Agriculture Military a similar contemporary fashion in Europe or elsewhere.

Invention The Williams county commissioners of 1887 ordered the razing of the old structures in other areas of the Midwest.In 1888,the commissioners exist as a town),build temporary county buildings immediately and Erected in 1890,the present Williams County Courthouse is situated on designed many of Toledo's buildings as well as a considerable number of approved the plans.Malone Brothers and Earhart of Toledo were awarded new courthouse.E.o.Fallis,19th century Dean of Toledo Architects, courthouse and the construction of a new one.They chose E.o.Fallis Social/Human- penditure of $250,000. Political Art AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Other moved to Bryan, with the stipulations that the landowners in the new "Court Square", the land donated in 1840,by John A.

Bryan, then state town cede certain amounts of land (which at that time, did not yet known as Romanesque Revival.Conceived by Henry Hobson Richardson, the contract to construct the building.The cornerstone was laid April Romanesque Revival employed the detailsof century Romanesque of southern France.It is an unusual style in that it was not an echo of is an excellent example of that rather short-lived style of architecture, 30,1889 by the Williams County Pioneer Association as part of a large was formed from Indian territory April1,1820.Defiance was the first Howe's History of Ohio, Vol. II., 1907. Shinn, William, The History of Williams County. LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY ACRES APR % 5 1973

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FORM PREPARED BY Harry F. Dunlap STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended GP0 931-894 Degrees Seconds LATITUDE LONGITUDE DATE Minutes ORGANIZATION STATE 039 CODE Name CORNER COUNTY Local Degrees Minutes Seconds Ohio Williams County Historical Society NATIONAL REGISTER Montpelier NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION GEOGRAPHICAL DATA As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- National Register. NAME AND TITLE: ATTEST: STREET AND NUMBER: 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 121l Townline Road COPE CITY OR TOWN: Bryan, Ohio, 1941. Oct.

5, 1971 Talmadge, Thomas E.,The Story of Architecture in America. Title Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIESOVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES level of significance of this nomination is: OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES - 4.25.73.2851 HISTORIAN Entered Maps Re-submit ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER Photos TECH REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN National Register write-up WORKING NUMBER CONTROL REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Federal Register entry Accept.- Aml CAY 7 1973 425 Wnte-up C.Shall NPS Number - PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. Williems, Onia Form 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: U.S.G.S. 7-1/2' Bryan Quadrangle TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

039 1960 Bryan NAME COUNTY REGISTER DATE STATE REQUIREMENTS Williams NATIONAL CODE 1:24000 COMMON: SCALE: Ohio MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Corner of Main and High Streets PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) CITY OR TOWN: LOCATION 171 APR Williams County Courthouse DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRYAN QUADRANGLE BRYAN, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey Williams County Court- Lat.41°2827 Pulton County Courthouse Pulton County Hon. Delbert D. Tatta Eon.

Tennyson Quyer # Location 1973 5/11/73 STATE PHR Name Wapakoneta NRowland:mm ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Gzeene County Also Notified Date Entered Director, Northeast Region Hancock County Bank of Xenia Vicinity of Cedarville Hancock County Courthouse Auglaize County Williams County Courthouse LAY Wil1ians County Me. Daniel R. Porter Ion. Claronce J. Browd, Js. Bryen Director Auglaize County Courthpuse The Ohio Historical Society Reid (Whitelaw) House Hon. Robert Taft, Jr