{"nrhp_refnum":"73002295","name":"Lucas County Courthouse and Jail","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq. and 810-814 Jackson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toledo","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.65532592500006,"lon":-83.53702467499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A steel-framed Berea sandstone courthouse and an adjoining L-shaped county jail with sheriff's residence, both completed in 1896 on Courthouse Square in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. David L. Stine designed both and Dun, Perley & Co. built them.","why_significant":"The nomination calls the courthouse and jail excellent examples of late nineteenth century public architecture. The six-acre square, with grass and radiating sidewalks, is typical of American courthouse squares and serves as a focal point of downtown Toledo. The two stone buildings harmonize well together.","narrative":"Completed in 1896, the Lucas County Courthouse and County Jail occupy a six-acre square in downtown Toledo. Architect David L. Stine designed both buildings, and Dun, Perley & Co. built them. The courthouse is a steel-framed building faced in Berea sandstone and modeled on the courthouse at Buffalo, New York. It has a central block with two wings, a facade of three Roman arches, paired Corinthian columns, a pediment, and a low dome ringed by Doric columns. Inside, the corridors had Italian marble and mosaic floors. The jail and sheriff's residence, paid for with surplus courthouse funds, is an L-shaped building with an administrative wing and a jail wing, rusticated stone, and a bracketed cornice. Albert Neukom supplied the stone for both. The pair is recognized as an excellent example of late nineteenth century public architecture and as a typical courthouse square at the center of the city. County officials later sought to demolish the jail, and the sheriff's residence was slated for reuse as offices.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date 1896","architect_builder":"David L. Stine (architect); Dun, Perley & Co. (contractors); stone furnished by Albert Neukom","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered at nomination. Later papers say the county planned to demolish the jail, and a 1978-79 grant application describes the sheriff's residence/administration building as the surviving part of the jail, to be reused as county office space.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.634256-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/73002295.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002295/829f54df51-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73002295/829f54df51-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Joel Rossol","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_County,_Ohio_Courthouse_at_night.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Joel Rossol</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_County,_Ohio_Courthouse_at_night.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100007510","name":"Toledo Central Business Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/toledo-central-business-historic-district-100007510/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989945","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_County_Courthouse_and_Jail","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716642"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/lucas-county-courthouse-and-jail-73002295/"}