Summit County Courthouse, (1905-1908) located at 209 South High Street,

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was designed in the Second Renaissance Style by

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architect J. Milton Dyer.Thrane, Susan W., photographs by Tom Patterson and Bill Patterson, ‘‘County Courthouses of Ohio‘‘, Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN, 2000 p.168-170 The seated figures of ''Justice'' and ''Law'' were created by Cleveland sculptor Herman Matzen. Two powerful lions guard the South High Street side of the building. Dyer, a well known Cleveland, Ohio architect also worked with Cleveland sculptor Matzen again on the Lake County Courthouse, located in

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, 1909. The courthouse was added to the

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in 1974.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places County courthouses in Ohio Buildings and structures in Akron, Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Summit County, Ohio Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio