Built in 1913 in the Renaissance Revival architecture. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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 former Bowling Green Post Office is a historic governmental facility in downtown Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the early twentieth century, this post office features an unusual combination of distinctive architectural styles, and it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Bowling Green, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 21 National Register listings in Wood County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1913, Renaissance Revival architecture, by Oscar Wenderoth · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Wood County.
National Register reference number.79001980- 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
2 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office between
2002 and 2002, burning about 5 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
Recreation and ceremony
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 668 specimens
collected within 10 miles of U.S. Post Office between 1893 and
1975: 628 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 9 Plantae, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Allen, J. M., Angle, E. (Eric), B. BURGER 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
1 working within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office: 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bowling Green, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 37 thunderstorm wind, 24 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Lightning stuck a tree at a golf course in Bowling Green causing the tree to fall and land on a golf cart. A person riding on the golf cart was pinned and had to be cut out. The person was transported to a hospital for treatment of their injuries.
A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Wood County and caused widespread damage and power outages. A 101 mph wind gust was measured at the Bowling Green Airport at approximately 3:55 p.m. The airport, located on the northeast side of town, was very hard hit. The terminal building lost a large section of roof with three nearby hangers heavily damaged. A total of 17 aircraft were either damaged or destroyed. Four buildings at the Bowling Green State University were damaged by the strong winds. Signs and a press box on the campus were also toppled. Many other homes and buildings, including a city garage, were damaged. Hundreds of trees and limbs were downed and many streets had to closed because of debris. Dozens of vehicles sustained varying amounts of damage.
A trained spotter measured a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Dozens of trees were toppled or snapped and three semi trucks were blown over on Interstate 75 just south of U.S. Route 6. No injuries were reported.
Dozens of trees were downed across Wood County. A few of the trees damaged homes. A tree punctured the roof of a home on Euler Road west of Bowling Green.
Thunderstorm winds estimated to be in excess of 60 mph blew a semi truck over on Interstate 75 ten miles north of Bowling Green. A car was also damaged.
Members of the public estimated wind gusts in excess of 70 mph west of Bowling Green. Many trees were downed from strong thunderstorm winds throughout Bowling Green and south to Portage. At least two of the trees fell on homes.
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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned 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
_ORIGINAL SITE paired torch-like finials. Within this bay the actual doorway is recessed, and with two 1/4 round louvered openings and corbeled brick detailing. This bay terminates with a triangular pediment.The front entrance. To the right is a fire exit on the first floor, to the left is incised panels beneath them.There is a single arched window in both the north is rectangular with stamped tin bands framing it.At each corner of the tin are The facade has a projecting center bay which houses the main entrance.The entryway base of the cornice are sandstone.The parapet is brick and sandstone. is repeated above the windows.T to fire escapes.Above the roofline the bays terminate in a triangular pediment The square brick structure rests on a raised rusticated stone block foundation. DATE.
AREAS OF
Statement of significance
James, a lawyer in the City, by the U.S. Government at a cost of $6,000 for the purpose purchased by the city from Wood County and renovated on the interior, restored on council chambers, mayor's and city administration offices and the department of 1600-1699 1800-1899 1500-1599 1700-1799 THEATER LAW SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD SCULPTURE ECONOMICS those years. INDUSTRY of association with the history of Bowling Green and have been in constant use during SCIENCE MILITARY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT XARCHITECTURE center for the city and for Wood County.No exterior alterations will be made. RELIGION LITERATURE "the architectural and structural integrity of the exterior of the former U.S.
the exterior, to serve as the City Administrative Services Building housing the - ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC to the Church Street School.Major improvements were made to the building in public utilities offices. _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _COMMUNICATIONS _TRANSPORTATION The North School was built in 1903 and occupied in January, 1904. The cost was local history .1400-1499 -SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN building was about $o0,0oo.
Last year the city purchased the post office in order .1900- -COMMERCE 1931.In 1956it became the home of the Wood County Library.In 1974 it was - ENGINEERING PREHISTORIC $30,0oo.The building was first known as the North School;the name was later changed Post Office will be preserved." -MUSIC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _COMMUNITY PLANNING The Post Office is a fine example of the Neo-classical style as applied to public buildings of the early 20th C. The site was purchased in 1909 from Benjamin Franklin INVENTION Both buildings represent good examples of the early 20th century building styles and accordance with the quitclaim deed conveying the property from GSA to the city, O
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001980, 23 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
3 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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