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Title
Hamilton
County
Courthouse
Subject
Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Rogers, Isaiah, 1800-1869
Wilson, James Keys, 1828-1894
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
The
Hamilton
County
Courthouse
,
located
at
1000
Main
Street
, and
bounded
by
East
Central
Parkway
,
Court
and
Sycamore
Streets
,
is
a
6-story
limestone
structure
with
fluted
columns
.
Completed
in
1919
in an
adapted
Greek
Ionic
style
, and
is
the
fourth
courthouse
on this
site
. In the
lobby
on the
Main
Street
side
are
memorials
and
markers
pertaining
to the
terrible
courthouse
riot
in
March
1884
over
a
corrupt
judiciary
and
slack
sentencing
,
which
took
about
50
lives
and
resulted
in the
destruction
of the
building
. This
third
courthouse
building
had been
originally
designed
by
Isaiah
Rogers
,
who
proposed
a
domed
courthouse
for
Cincinnati
in
1851
;
taken
over
by
James
Keys
Wilson
and
William
Walter
,
it
was
completed
in the
mid-1850s
,
without
the
dome
. The
Office
of the
Hamilton
County
Clerk
of
Courts
originated
in
1802
when
the
Ohio
State
Constitution
provided
for the
appointment
of a
clerk
of
courts
for
each
county
.
William
Henry
Harrison
,
ninth
President
of the
United
States
, was
appointed
Hamilton
County
Clerk
of
Courts
in
May
,
1836
and was
Clerk
when
he was
elected
president
in
1840
. In
1851
the
Clerk
of
Courts
became
an
elected
position
for a
three-year
term
.
Since
1936
it
has been a
four-year
term
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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File Name
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Image Height
4574
Image Width
5848
File Size
80270360 Bytes
Display File Type
image/jp2
Format
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Date created
2010-04-07
Date modified
2010-05-13
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