{"nrhp_refnum":"73001496","name":"Licking County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newark","county":"Licking County","state":"OH","lat":40.05783461400006,"lon":-82.40142279999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A cut limestone county courthouse on Courthouse Square in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, built 1876-1878 to designs by architect H. E. Myer.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the finest examples of its type in Ohio and an excellent late-Victorian county courthouse with well-preserved Second Empire features. It also cites Henry Howe, who described the courthouse square as the most beautiful of its kind in Ohio. The building has served as the county courthouse since completion.","narrative":"Built of dressed and rock-faced limestone between 1876 and 1878, the Licking County Courthouse occupies Courthouse Square in Newark, Ohio. The roughly seventy-five-foot-square building rests on a sandstone foundation and was designed by architect H. E. Myer, with Miller, Frazier and Sheets of Mansfield as major contractor. The county authorized construction at a cost of $148,000 when its earlier courthouse no longer met the needs of a growing county. Each side has a pedimented, projecting central bay topped by a statue of Justice, though the statues have lost their scales. A mansard roof carries an ornate clock tower with louvered round-headed arches and an iron balustrade. First-floor windows have Tudor-arched frames, and second-floor windows have leaded circular insets under semi-elliptical arches. Described as massive yet well proportioned, the building is considered an excellent late-Victorian courthouse with well-preserved Second Empire features. Historian Henry Howe praised the courthouse square as the most beautiful of its kind in Ohio. The building has remained the county courthouse ever since.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (built 1876-1878)","architect_builder":"Architect H. E. Myer; major contractor Miller, Frazier and Sheets of Mansfield, Ohio","architectural_style":"Second Empire (late-Victorian county courthouse)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered; in use as the county courthouse since 1878.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.269087-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73001496.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001496/032a02fb81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001496/032a02fb81-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newark-ohio-courthouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newark-ohio-courthouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01001482","name":"Newark Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/newark-downtown-historic-district-01001482/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989704","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130901229"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/licking-county/licking-county-courthouse-73001496/"}