Wood County Courthouse (West Virginia)

The Wood County Courthouse is a public building in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, in the United States.

[2] The courthouse was built in 1899 at a cost of $100,000 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by local contractors Caldwell & Drake, according to the plans of architect L. W. Thomas of Canton, Ohio.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 for its architectural significance.

[1] During his 1912 presidential campaign Theodore Roosevelt stopped in Parkersburg and spoke from the Market street entrance of the courthouse.

This article about a property in Wood County, West Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.

Wood County Courthouse in the 1970s after urban renewal projects in downtown.