{"id":77,"date":"2013-07-08T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/akroninteractive\/?p=77"},"modified":"2014-04-24T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T02:22:09","slug":"summit-county-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2013\/07\/08\/summit-county-courthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County Courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-77 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2013\/07\/08\/summit-county-courthouse\/summitcourthousetoday\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/914\/2013\/07\/SummitCourthouseToday.jpg?w=150&amp;h=127&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-49\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-49'>\n\t\t\t\tSummit County Courthouse 2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2013\/07\/08\/summit-county-courthouse\/summitcourthouse1940s\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/914\/2013\/07\/SummitCourthouse1940s.jpg?w=133&amp;h=103&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-46\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-46'>\n\t\t\t\tSummit County Courthouse, 1940\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>By Jaime Palinchak<\/p>\n<p>The Summit County Courthouse and Annex is located at 209 South High Street.\u00a0It was constructed after the original courthouse, built in 1843, was torn down in 1905.\u00a0It was built in order to meet the demands of the population increase that occurred in Akron due to the expansion of the city\u2019s rubber industry. The building was designed by J. Milton Dyer, an architect who was a significant in many urban planning projects in Cleveland in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0Dyer also designed Cleveland City Hall, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Coast Guard Station, and the U.S. Subtreasury Building in San Francisco. The main building of the courthouse faces west and was constructed in 1908.\u00a0The annex building, built in 1922, faces east and is identical in style.\u00a0The two buildings are connected by two bridges on the second and third stories.\u00a0According to the National Register report, the architectural features are \u201ccharacteristic of the simpler interpretations of the Renaissance Revival style\u201d and \u201cthe interiors of both buildings have the dignity characteristic of the public buildings of the period.\u201d One clear example of this style is the heavy and dark walnut and oak interior woodwork.\u00a0Two seated male statues flank the entrance; one holds a scroll and the other a sword, representing law and justice, respectively. Two lions also stand guard at the entrance. The Summit County Courthouse and Annex were entered into the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service in 1974.\u00a0Today, the buildings are home to the Divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County.\u00a0It thus is still in use for court functions while simultaneously serving as a visual example of the city\u2019s legal and architectural history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jaime Palinchak The Summit County Courthouse and Annex is located at 209 South High Street.\u00a0It was constructed after the original courthouse, built in 1843, was torn down in 1905.\u00a0It was built in order to meet the demands of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2013\/07\/08\/summit-county-courthouse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36282],"tags":[7160,36294,36310,36302],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtown","tag-akron","tag-downtown-2","tag-summit-county-court-house","tag-walking-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}