{"nrhp_refnum":"74001524","name":"Harrison County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cadiz","county":"Harrison County","state":"OH","lat":40.272817872000076,"lon":-80.99793654899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stone courthouse with a raised basement on Courthouse Square in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, built from 1893 to 1895 and designed by the firm Yost and Packard.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the most important surviving nineteenth century courthouses in Ohio. It is presented as an excellent example of a late nineteenth century Ohio courthouse, in the manner of other Yost and Packard designs. Its significance is recorded under architecture.","narrative":"Harrison County Courthouse, on Courthouse Square in Cadiz, Ohio, is a two-story stone building with a raised basement, erected between 1893 and 1895. It measures about eighty feet square and presents four very similar facades. The foundation is rock-faced limestone, and the walls use small rock-faced stone. Mansard-roofed corner towers, columned porches, round-headed second-floor windows with arched hoodmolds, and slate roofs define its look. A central square tower holds four clock faces and a round dome topped by a statue of justice. County commissioners hired the firm Yost and Packard to design it, and E. M. Long of Bowerstown served as general contractor. The cost was $93,109. It replaced two earlier courthouses, a frame structure and a later building used until the 1890s. Cadiz became county seat after the county was formed in 1814. The building is described as one of Ohio's most important surviving nineteenth century courthouses, and its interior remains largely original.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (built 1893-1895)","architect_builder":"Architects Yost and Packard; general contractor E. M. Long of Bowerstown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Stated to be in good condition, in government use and occupied, with an interior in original condition apart from new lighting and plumbing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.049885-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/74001524.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001524/408e25cb71-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001524/408e25cb71-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bwsmith84 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrison_County_Courthouse_Ohio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bwsmith84 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrison_County_Courthouse_Ohio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989308","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_County_Courthouse_(Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5665575"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/harrison-county/harrison-county-courthouse-74001524/"}