The Paulding County Courthouse

The Paulding County Courthouse is a historic governmental building in downtown Paulding, Ohio. When Paulding County was established in 1820, the community of Charloe served as the first county seat. However, the county seat was eventually moved to the village of Paulding due to the stagnation of Charloe.

The village of Paulding received its second courthouse in 1837 as a frame structure. After approximately fifty years of service, this building was demolished to make room for the current structure. The present building was erected in 1886 on the same location, built by workers under the direction of general contractor Rudolph Ehrhart for the E.O. Fallis Company.

Designed by the E.O. Fallis Company, the building is a brick structure with a stone foundation and an asphalt roof. It is a Richardsonian Romanesque building that was patterned after the Lenawee County Courthouse in Michigan, which was also designed by the Fallis architects. The building measures 60 feet square and stands 163 feet tall at the tip of its domed tower.

In 1974, the courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because its well-preserved architecture was deemed significant statewide. It is one of four buildings in Paulding County on the Register. The building features nearly identical entrances on each of its four sides and stands two-and-one-half stories tall.

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