Licking County Seat, Newark O.

County Courthouse begun in 1876 built in Second Empire style, has a working clock tower, and four Lady Justices.  All these fotos can be taken on the same walk, it helps to know beforehand the better routes.

Mark Twain and bench by Midland Theater, once in front of the ticket booth looking out to the courthouse, now with a flower background looking at the theater. One of a series of famous people on benches by Gary Price, brought to Newark By John Gilbert Reese in 2003 with a little plaque honoring the actor Hal Holbrook.

Gary Lee Price. Learning Curve. 2006. Newark O. Licking County Library.

One of many sculptures donated [click] to Newark and Licking County by native son, J Gilbert Reese (*1925, 2018†).

Walking by, there was this Pabst wagon by the trash containers. I have not had a Pabst since January 1978, i can still immediately recognise the smell.

Notice the blinds allow for a cat's eye view.

The old county jail and sheriff's residence. The front of the building housed the sheriff, jail matron, and their families. The back of the three storey building had 32 cells for prisoners. Built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style used from 1889 to 1987. Over the years many prisoners killed themselves, and now tickets are sold for Jail of Terror. My battery died photographing St. Francis de Sales, whose first priest was Jean-Baptiste Lamy. He became the first bishop of Santa Fe New Mexico. Willa Cather wrote a novel about him, Death Comes for the Archbishop. So my nephew's fotos i have used. [foto:jz]

Architectural details and ornaments are great to see. The side entrance to the jail has a frog. That frog would have been looking over, at different times a canal, and then a railroad station. [foto:jz]

Sometimes interesting signage is informative. [foto:jz]

The sun bleached out this view, foto suffered. This financial building's architect was Louis Sullivan, built in 1914 with two terra cotta facades. This is the longer, and southern one. Sullivan known for skyscrapers, built eight smallish banks. In the literature they are called 'jewel boxes'.