{"nrhp_refnum":"79001981","name":"Wood County Home and Infirmary","other_names":["Wood County Historical Museum","Adam Phillips Park"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N of Bowling Green at 13660 County Home Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bowling Green","county":"Wood County","state":"OH","lat":41.350734189000036,"lon":-83.61718623399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former county poorhouse complex north of Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, with a three-wing brick Infirmary begun in 1868, a 1885 lunatic house or 'jail', and many farm and service outbuildings in a park-like setting.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of few intact examples of the county home system once common across Ohio and was a model institution of its day. The center and east wings were designed by Toledo architect Edward O. Fallis, described as a father of the cottage-system county home. The complex also shows an unusual integration of style and function, and natural gas was first found in Wood County on its grounds in 1884.","narrative":"North of Bowling Green, a cluster of brick and wooden buildings once served as the Wood County poorhouse. The county bought 160 acres in 1867, and the first building, by local builder A. Ordway, opened in December 1868. The main Infirmary grew into a three-wing, 2½-story brick structure, with the west wing showing Italianate details and the central and east wings, built in 1898, designed by Toledo architect Edward O. Fallis. A vernacular Greek Revival lunatic house followed in 1885, along with barns, a power house, an ice house, a laundry and hog houses that made the farm largely self-sufficient. Natural gas was first found in the county on these grounds in 1884. Superintendent Frank Brandeberry built the distinctive glacial stone wall and concrete picket fence around 1920. The institution closed in 1971 and now houses the Wood County Museum within Adam Phillips Park. It is valued as one of few intact examples of Ohio's county home system.","period_of_significance":"1868-present","architect_builder":"A. Ordway/E.O. Fallis, in part","architectural_style":"Italianate influence on the west wing; vernacular Greek Revival for the 1885 lunatic house","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Infirmary was abandoned in 1971 when a new county facility was built. Since 1972 the Park Commission and Historical Society have run it; the Wood County Museum opened in 1975 and part of the grounds is Adam Phillips Park. Condition is listed as good to fair and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.101447-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001981.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001981/17b861b3b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001981/17b861b3b9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wood_County_Home_and_Infirmary.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wood_County_Home_and_Infirmary.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992060","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_County_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17039816"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/wood-county/wood-county-home-and-infirmary-79001981/"}