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Wayne County Courthouse
The style chosen for the courthouse was Romanesque Revival, popularized by Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886), a flamboyant graduate of Harvard and student at the Exole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1860-62. He is often termed the father of modern architecture in the United States. His designs emphasized horizontal lines, rounded arches and masses of materials, often rough-cut stone. The Wayne County courthouse shows many similarities to the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania finished in 1887. Materials were gray granite from Concord, New Hampshire, lighter gray oolitic limestone from Lawrence County, Indiana, and red roof tile from Akron, Ohio. The most recent roof is gray slate. The Courthouse was completed March 1893.
Information from the brochure "Old Richmond Historical District Walking Tour" published by the Richmond/Wayne County Convention and Tourism Bureau.
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