The Morrow County Courthouse is a historic government building in the village of Mount Gilead, Ohio, United States.
[4]: 99 By mid-1849, the necessary funds had been raised, and on 7 July 1849 the county commissioners began advertising for bids for a jail building, which was completed somewhat more than a year later.
More than two years passed before the commissioners were ready to construct a courthouse: they began advertising for bids in March 1852, and the project was officially completed on 15 July 1854.
[6] The interior is accessed through the southern (front) facade,[2]: 33 with a rounded arch entrance in place of the original Greek Revival design,[2]: 34 but some elements of the original design remain: for example, numerous pilasters on the walls once concealed the building's many chimneys, and certain parts of the second story of the interior, left unchanged by construction, depict all three stages of the courthouse's history.
At the top of the building, a cornice and a plain frieze crown the walls, while a finial and pagoda-shaped roof sit at the peak of the fifty-foot tower.