Logan County Courthouse

Built in 1871 in the Second Empire style. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

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 6 National Register listings in Logan County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1871, Second Empire style.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Public Sq., Bellefontaine, 43311
When was it listed? 1973-06-04
Category. building
Township. Lake township
When was it built? 1871
Architectural style. 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.

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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Polygonatum verticillatum (L.) All.	1911	Errard P.	Bellefontaine
Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)	1930	E. Williamson & et al.	[Not Stated]
Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1937	Brooks; Barghoorn. Howard.	Soringhills, Harison, OH. Ohio bog
Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb.	1862	W. M. Canby	Belfontaine.
Nasturtium officinale R.Br.	1862	W. M. Canby	Bellefontaine
Protographium marcellus (Cramer, 1777)	1869	not recorded	Bellefontaine
Otus asio naevius (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)	1874	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)	Logan, Ohio, USA
Solenostoma crenuliforme (Austin) Steph.	1877	not recorded
Gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)	1889	McCormick, L. M.	Oberlin, Logan, Ohio, USA
Gallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)	1889	McCormick, L. M.	Beaver Creek, Logan, Ohio, USA
Dendroica virens virens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1891	McCormick, L. M.	Oberlin, Logan, Ohio, USA
Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1893	not recorded	Logan Co., Ohio

All 930 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Johnson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Johnson's Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Logan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Logan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ropp Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

60 of 73 shown

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2004	Lightning	Bellefontaine	1 hurt	A 19 year-old boy suffered minor injuries when lightning struck a nearby tree.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$250,000	Numerous trees and power lines were damaged across Logan County.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$100,000	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.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$60,000	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.
September 2000	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	$50,000	Heavy rainfall caused flooded roads in Bellefontaine. Also, part of the road and a bridge were washed out on Township Road 151.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$40,000	Straight-line thunderstorm winds destroyed a large shed and severely damaged two machinery sheds.
February 2011	Flood	Bellefontaine	$25,000	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.
March 2011	Flood	Bellefontaine	$25,000	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.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$20,000	A large tree fell onto a house on Wright Street, damaging the house.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	$15,000	Mary Rutan Hospital was flooded by water. Also, numerous roads were closed throughout Logan County due to high water.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$10,000	A few power poles were downed along Township Highway 199 West.
March 2011	Flood	Bellefontaine	$10,000	Numerous roads were flooded across the county due to heavy rainfall.
February 2011	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	$10,000	Multiple roads were closed due to flash flooding.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$10,000	Several 2 inch diameter tree limbs downed. A tree fell on an automobile in Bellefontaine, causing some damage.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$10,000	A few trees fell on homes.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$10,000	Many trees downed.
April 2002	Hail	Bellefontaine	$10,000	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Bellefontaine	$10,000	no account filed
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$7,000	A power pole was snapped and a tree fell down on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$5,000	Several trees were downed in the Bellefontaine area.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$5,000	A large limb fell onto a car.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$5,000	Several trees were knocked down in the city of Bellefontaine.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$5,000	A barn was blown down on Township Road 200.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$5,000	Trees were downed, some on power lines.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$5,000	no account filed
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Bellefontaine	$3,000	Three cars were stranded in high water.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$3,000	Trees and power lines were reported down in the area due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2007	Flood	Bellefontaine	$3,000	A few roads were flooded across the county.
March 2007	Hail	Bellefontaine	$3,000	A telephone pole was also knocked down.
March 2007	Flood	Bellefontaine	$3,000	Numerous roads were flooded and closed across the county.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$3,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$3,000	Power poles were knocked down.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$3,000	A tree was blown down onto State Route 508. A large limb was also knocked down on State Route 57.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$3,000	Trees knocked down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$3,000	Several trees knocked down.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$2,000	Several trees were knocked down between Bellefontaine and West Liberty.
May 2011	Flood	Bellefontaine	$2,000	Numerous roads were closed due to heavy rainfall.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$2,000	A 60 mph wind gust was estimated near Bellefontaine.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$2,000	A few trees were knocked down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$2,000	Two trees were downed.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$1,000	A large tree was downed.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$1,000	A very large Alpine spruce was uprooted.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$1,000	A tree was downed in Bellefontaine due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2011	Heavy Rain	Bellefontaine	$1,000	Water was overflowing onto a roadway from a drainage ditch.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	$1	Thunderstorm winds toppled two large trees.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	-	Water was rushing over the roadway.
May 2019	Flood	Bellefontaine	-	High water was reported on Troy Street.
June 2019	Flood	Bellefontaine	-	A road was closed due to high water.
June 2019	Flood	Bellefontaine	-	Several roads remained closed due to flooding.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	-	Video captured extensive flooding on streets up to houses on Washington and Ludlow Streets. The ditches had rapidly moving water.
June 2019	Flood	Bellefontaine	-	Numerous roads remained closed due to flooding.
June 2017	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	-	Water was reported over a portion of U.S. 68 north of Bellefontaine.
July 2017	Flood	Bellefontaine	-	Several roads were closed throughout Logan County due to high water.
July 2013	Flood	Bellefontaine	-	There were numerous reports of high water due to heavy rainfall in and around Bellefontaine.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	-	An Ohio Department of Transportation Sensor measured the wind gust.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Bellefontaine	-	There were reports of minor street flooding near the center of Bellefontaine town due to heavy rainfall.
June 2006	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	-	A few roads were flooded.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellefontaine	-	A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2002	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	-	Numerous roads in town were closed due to high water.
April 1998	Flash Flood	Bellefontaine	-	Heavy rainfall caused roads to be flooded.

Every storm recorded in Logan County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. 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.

Newspaper	Published
The Bellefontaine Republican	1855 to 1905

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

1,526 words on record

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.

The whole case file for this property - 1,526 words, 15 pages, reproduced complete.

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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
First Concrete Street In U.S.	under 500 feet	1974
Schine's Holland Theatre	under 500 feet	2001
Lawrence, William, House	0.3 miles	1979
Marmon, Martin, House	5.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001497 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 6 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.