
Sandusky County Courthouse, Fremont Ohio.
original 1840, expanded 1930.
The original courthouse dating to 1840, was the center recessed section. Then it was expanded and aggrandized in the first years of The Great Depression. In 1930 the population of Sandusky Co. was over 13,000; making this seem to be a large structure for their needs. Sandusky Co. is some 30 or 40 miles away from the city of Sandusky which lies on Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie. It's a fun name to say so why not use it?
I'm pushing my archictecual expertise, but the cupola appears, to me, to be original, it has a late Federal period look, which might still have been in use in Western Ohio in the 1840's
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