Wooster O.

Wayne County Courthouse 1878 main entrance with two Grecian figures called Atlas, Atlante, or Telamon. The female Caryatid are older. There are several famous examples in Europe, don't know if there is another of this quality in the United States.

Ohio has 88 counties, each with a courthouse. Many of the present ones were built after the War for the Union, and before the century ended. Some counties are very rural, and have never had a city. The census definition is five thousand people. County government spent money to show its importance, so in some counties, the most extravagant or important architecture is the courthouse, which may also hold other county offices. Sometimes annexes have been added on. 

That war was the central event in the country's history. Sometimes there is a Civil War monument very close by, and the other significant buildings would be the then important bank, and the leading church. That would be the main intersection, and be the center of town. Wooster had the bank, and the monument. The churches are near by, but the Masonic Temple is closer.

Side entrance with another pair.

left of the main pair

right of the main pair

1862 house built for a department store owner.  There is also extravagant yard edifices.

Leg lamp in a shoe store, different than the one seen in Cleveland from the film Christmas Story (1983).