Wood County Courthouse

West Virginia, United States

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The Wood County Courthouse is a Richardsonian Romanesque public building completed in 1899 in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia. Designed by architect L. W. Thomas of Canton, Ohio, and constructed by local contractors Caldwell & Drake at a cost of $100,000, it stands as the fifth courthouse built in the county, replacing its 1860 predecessor. The building earned recognition on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 for its architectural significance. Theodore Roosevelt delivered a campaign speech from the courthouse's Market Street entrance during his 1912 presidential run. A restored steeple, added in 2020 to replace one removed in 1952, brings the courthouse to 164 feet, making it the tallest courthouse in West Virginia.