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Logan County Courthouse
Built in 1871 (Second Empire style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.
From the record
“The Logan County Courthouse is a historic Second Empire building located on the southeastern corner of Main Street and Columbus Avenue in downtown Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States. Built in 1870 at a cost of $105,398.08, the courthouse was constructed primarily of locally mined sandstone, and it is covered with a mansard roof.”
Wikipedia article Logan County Courthouse (Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1871, Second Empire style.
National Register reference number.73001497- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1913 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19131992
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 930 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 930 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Logan County Courthouse between 1862 and 1975: 880 Animalia, 27 Fungi, 20 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. D. Selby, A. R. Gaufin and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Logan County Courthouse: 3 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bellefontaine, the town this property stands in, in 73 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 34 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 12 flood, 9 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Numerous trees and large branches were downed across the area due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Some of the branches were blocking the Route 33 and 68 exit ramp. Roof damage also occurred to several buildings in the area.
Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Several barns were also damaged or destroyed along with some minor damage to a few homes.
Flooding is a continuation from earlier flash flooding in the area. Several roads were impassible and evacuations occurred in a trailer park due to the precipitation. Flooding began around 0645 EST on February 28th and continued until around 0900 EST on March 2nd. Damage estimates during March were around twenty-five thousand dollars.
Flooding is a continuation from earlier flash flooding in the area on February 28th. Several roads were impassible and evacuations occurred in a trailer park due to the precipitation. Flooding began around 0645 EST on February 28th and continued until around 0900 EST on March 2nd. Damage estimates during February were around twenty-five thousand dollars.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
was Alexander Koehler. The two story building has a mansard bay section, is a statue of Justice. The statue is located in the center of the bay, in a deep recess.( The roof was originally Excellent They are arched, and the voussoirs are rusticated.The arch is supported and there is a small balcony supported by stone brackets above the The Logan County Courthouse was constructed of cut stone from of the building is constructed of smooth stone.There is a Fair windows on the second floor is an Ionic entablature. gates are attached to the pilasters.The doors have fanlights, 1870 to 1871.The architect of this Second Empire period structure pieces of slate.Two fancy dormers with oval windows are employed
Statement of significance
The Logan County Courthouse is the second such structure Commerce Science losophy Architecture Communications Conservation Engineering county records. Transportation Military REGISTER Literature Theater Aboriginal Religion/Phi Prehistoric NATIONAL itarian Agriculture Landscape Music Invention Social/Human- Pre-Columbian Sculpture Since its opening this important nineteenth century Ohio The architect that the county employed to design the new constructed early in the nineteenth century on the site of Urban Planning to be built in Bellefontaine.The first courthouse was Industry to build a larger building to house the courts and the and the building was compheted and occupied in 1871, The building was erected at a cost of $105,398.00.
Political SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) built 1870-1871 building was Alexander Koehler. Construction began in 1870 courthouse has been carefully preserved, and has served the Art RECEIVED MAY241973 county's needs quite well.It is an excellent example of its type,and is in excellent condition American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1903.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001497, 15 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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