Built in 1868 in the Greek 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 Wood County Museum, located in Bowling Green, Ohio, is the original site of the Wood County Infirmary also known as the Wood County Home or the Poor Farm. This structure was the home to poor, mentally- ill, physically disabled and anyone in need of public assistance who were residents of Wood County.”
Wikipedia article Wood County Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 21 National Register listings in Wood County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1868, Greek Revival architecture · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Wood County.
National Register reference number.79001981- 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 Wood County Home and Infirmary between
2002 and 2002, burning about 4 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 774 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wood County Home and Infirmary between 1894 and
1975: 736 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 8 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, 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
1 working within 5 miles of Wood County Home and Infirmary: 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.
From the nomination file
2,642 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
The main Infirmary building consists of three, 2k story brick wings, u-shaped in plan. with modillions, tin hoodmolds over windows, and brick corbelling between the 2nd and north front facade, terminating at the 2½ story entrance. The rectangular lunatic house or 'jail', built in 1885, is a brick, vernacular Greek entrance features a double-door portal, with glazed, recessed transom, and a stone lintel located, one per floor)-and a metal fire escape to the second story window. Both CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT XALTERED Jail XUNALTERED gable ends have windows like those in the rest of the building. bays long.
Window openings are double-hung,6/6 sash-reminiscent of earlier Greek structures, and is covered with patterned slate.A medium width freize board runs under and the corbel table.A metal fire escape climbs the west facade, and wraps around the CHECK ONE Linwood Road bisects the complex. _DETERIORATED in 1903.A metal cornice and balustrade crown this porch roof. The west wing shows strong Italianate influence, and features a bracketed cornice All three wings rest on high, rough hewn limestone foundations.The west wing has a central and east wings were built in 1898,following demolition of the former wings, arched;windows have stone lug sills with 2/2 double-hung sash.
- MOVEDDATE X.FAIR DATE 1 story, glazed and enclosed porch, supported by square brick pillars, which was added The west wing is the oldest (1868), apparently with a k story being added in 1873. The which were built in the early 1880's. The roof is hipped on all wings, but the west wings roof is truncated. Dormers extend from all three wings also, but are gabled on the eaves of the gable ends.
Fallis, Toledo architect who was the father of the "cottage' system county home and/or 1868, and one pauper from each township was duly received. By 1869, the County Insane Asylur 1877. A full complement of functions and structures were represented: dormitories, tool- house, chicken coop, resevoiis, privies, woodshed, cemetary, grain fields, corn crib, hog pen, ice house, cattle barn, power plant, and laundry.
In fact, the Infirmary was self- In 1887, another gas well was drilled, which provided gas for boilers, stoves, and In 1892, the largest cattle barn in Wood County was built on the infirmary grounds, but pose of housing insane inmates, a 1900 law deemed that insane patients be removed to 1700-1799 1400-1499 1500-1599 ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD THEATER EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SCULPTURE MILITARY sufficient. SCIENCE PREHISTORIC RELIGION INDUSTRY LITERATURE XARCHITECTURE local history The Wood County Home and Infirmary is significant because it represents one of few in- _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT on the Infirmary grounds, heralding the great gas and oil boom in Northwest Ohio. integrated variance of style and function.
_TRANSPORTATION 'Insane Asylums'.The Infirmary continued to grow however, and during the depression housed 144 needy citizens. was also moved to the Infirmary, from Perrysburg. state hospital.Also, the buildings, though relatively simple, represent an unusual, In October of 1867,Wood County purchased 160 acres of farmland in Center Township, their development. The Wood County Home and Infirmary was a model institution in its many of the county's prominent citizens. Architecturally, the complex is significant _COMMUNICATIONS lights at the Infirmary until 1904,when the well became exhausted.
-'poorhouse'-was changed to County Infirmary in 1850.In March,1868, the county com- day, and has been a part of Wood County history since 1865,-having been associated with it was destroyed by fire in 1965.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001981, 20 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.
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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