Built in 1891 in the Romanesque Revival architecture. 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
“Williams County Courthouse, at the intersection of Main and High Streets in Bryan, is the county courthouse serving Williams County, Ohio. The courthouse was built in the late nineteenth century to replace an earlier courthouse; Bryan had been the Williams County seat since 1840.”
Wikipedia article Williams County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 4 National Register listings in Williams County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1891, Romanesque Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.73001552- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Williams County Courthouse between
2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 200 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Williams County Courthouse between 1890 and
1974: 175 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adler, K. K., Anson A. Hinkley, Bauer, L. 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Williams County Courthouse: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. 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
Bryan, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 21 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
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
1,157 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
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.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001552, 9 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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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