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Summit County Courthouse (Ohio)

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Area
  
2 acres (0.81 ha)

Architect
  
J. Milton Dyer

Built
  
1908 (1908)

NRHP Reference #
  
74001625

Summit County Courthouse (Ohio)

Location
  
209 S. High St., Akron, Ohio

Architectural style
  
Second Renaissance Revival

Summit County Courthouse, (1905-1908) located at 209 South High Street, Akron, Ohio was designed in the Second Renaissance Style by Cleveland architect J. Milton Dyer. The seated figures of Justice and Law were created by Cleveland sculptor Herman Matzen. Two powerful lions guard the South High Street side of the building.

Dyer, a well known Cleveland, Ohio architect also worked with Cleveland sculptor Matzen again on the Lake County Courthouse, located in Painesville, Ohio, 1909.

The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Summit County Courthouse (Ohio) Wikipedia