Description: Dated June 30, 1936, this photograph shows men and women working on the Batavia Courthouse project in Batavia, Ohio, with a caption which reads ""Project #16-13-1006. A project for indexing and filing court records at Batavia Courthouse, Batavia, Ohio. The project employs 5 persons. The W.P.A. furnished $3,708, white the sponsors, Clermont County, furnished $140. The project started February 5, 1936. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project No. 1 (Writers') District #16. Clermont County. 6-30-36." This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F07_01_01
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; Employees; Works Progress Administration; Batavia (Ohio)
Places: Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Project W.P. #5748. Clermont County Courthouse, Batavia, Ohio. Common Pleas Court Room. Photo by Federal Writers' Photographer. Jan. 14, 1937." This photograph is an interior view of an empty courtroom at the Clermont County Courthouse. The current courthouse is located at 270 Main Street in Batavia, Ohio and was completed in 1936, having been designed by the architectural firm of Hunt & Allan in the Neoclassical style for $100,000. The building has a rectangular footprint and is two stories high. The facade of the building is lined with red brick and limestone trimwork. The building's main entrance is accessed by a flight of stairs and is framed by four large Tuscan piers supporting an entablature above. A window is located to each side of the central door with a window directly in line on the second floor. The wings to either side of the entrance projection contains three windows on each floor. The flat roof is hidden behind a solid balustrade. An addition was finished in 1998 and is located to the rear of the old courthouse. The design was approved by the commissioners and was submitted by Steinkamp, Steinkamp & Hampton. The building was designed in Greek Revival style and contains a central pediment supported by Tuscan columns with brick bases. The pediment contains an elliptical window. A drum rises from the roofline and is topped by a clock tower capped by a dome. It was constructed under the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and unfortunately an elaborate courthouse was not feasible due to the Great Depression. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F07_02_01
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio--History. Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Project W.P. #5748. Vestibule, Clermont County Courthouse, Batavia, Ohio. Photo by Federal Writers' Photographer. January 14, 1937." Clermont County Courthouse is located at 270 Main Street in Batavia, Ohio and was completed in 1936, having been designed by the architectural firm of Hunt & Allan in the Neoclassical style for $100,000. The building has a rectangular footprint and is two stories high. The facade of the building is lined with red brick and limestone trimwork. The building's main entrance is accessed by a flight of stairs and is framed by four large Tuscan piers supporting an entablature above. A window is located to each side of the central door with a window directly in line on the second floor. The wings to either side of the entrance projection contains three windows on each floor. The flat roof is hidden behind a solid balustrade. An addition was finished in 1998 and is located to the rear of the old courthouse. The design was approved by the commissioners and was submitted by Steinkamp, Steinkamp & Hampton. The building was designed in Greek Revival style and contains a central pediment supported by Tuscan columns with brick bases. The pediment contains an elliptical window. A drum rises from the roofline and is topped by a clock tower capped by a dome. It was constructed under the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and unfortunately an elaborate courthouse was not feasible due to the Great Depression. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F07_03_01
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio--History. Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph of Clermont County Court House was started December 2, 1935 and was completed in December 1936. The total cost was $96,504.90. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_014
Subjects: Court Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)--Pictorial works.
Places: Clermont County (Ohio); Batavia (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 55-year-old Dovie Blanche Dean, a Batavia housewife. Her formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during her trial or sentencing. Dean, convicted of poisoning and killing her newlywed husband, was the 293rd individual (and second of three women) to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 293 Dovie Blanche Dean Clermont County, Ohio, Legally Electro-cuted, January 15, 1954, for the Murder of Hawkins Dean.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08345
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is the front facade of the Clermont County Courthouse, located at 76 S. Riverside. It was built from 1935-1936 by architects Hunt and Allan with the aid of the Works Progress Administration. It represents Neoclassical architecture, and the red brick and limestone facade, accentuated with large windows in the front that light the courtroom, is surmounted by a wide, limestone entablature, which creates an impressive county building for local citizens. An addition was dedicated in 1998 after the extra space became necessary with the rapid growth of the county's population. The white building behind the courthouse currently houses the Adult Probation department. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F01_072
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; entablatures; pilasters; Neoclassical
Places: Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is the side facade of the Clermont County Courthouse, located at 76 S. Riverside. It was built from 1935-1936 by architects Hunt and Allan with the aid of the Works Progress Administration. It represents Neoclassical architecture, and the red brick and limestone facade, accentuated with large windows in the front that light the courtroom, is surmounted by a wide, limestone entablature, which creates an impressive county building for local citizens. An addition was dedicated in 1998 after the extra space became necessary with the rapid growth of the county's population. The white building behind the courthouse currently houses the Adult Probation department. Its front facade is shown here. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F01_074
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; entablatures; pilasters; Neoclassical
Places: Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is the side facade of the Clermont County Courthouse, located at 76 S. Riverside. It was built from 1935-1936 by architects Hunt and Allan with the aid of the Works Progress Administration. It represents Neoclassical architecture, and the red brick and limestone facade, accentuated with large windows in the front that light the courtroom, is surmounted by a wide, limestone entablature, which creates an impressive county building for local citizens. An addition was dedicated in 1998 after the extra space became necessary with the rapid growth of the county's population. The white building behind the courthouse currently houses the Adult Probation department. Its front facade is shown here. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F01_073
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; entablatures; pilasters; Neoclassical
Places: Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1934, this photograph shows the front of the Trumbull Cary house in Batavia, New York. Built in 1817, this house was home to Trumbull Cary, founder of the Bank of Genesee, a New York senator, and Batavia's first treasurer. Trumbull lived in the home with his wife Margaret and son Walter. The mansion was demolished in 1964. The Cary mansion is a prime example of Greek Revival style architecture. To either side of the house's facade are Ionic columns supporting a porch above. Dental patterns decorate the cornices supporting the porches. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, Ihna Thayer Frary was a prominent American art and architecture scholar, whose primary interest was the architectural heritage of the region of northeastern Ohio known as the Western Reserve. In addition to serving as publicity and membership secretary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he was a professor of Ohio and American architecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, Frary was a design consultant for private clients and designed furniture, and was an active member of several prominent arts councils in the Cleveland area. In 1963, Frary and his two sons donated his entire photographic collection to the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). The Ihna Thayer Frary Collection consists of 4,000 5 x 7 photographs of private residences, churches, taverns, and public buildings, as well as select rural buildings, bridges, archaeological sites, and public monuments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P112_B54B_3689_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Domestic architecture; Houses; Classical Revival (European revival style)
Places: Batavia (New York)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1934, this photograph shows the front entrance to the Trumbull Cary house in Batavia, New York. Built in 1817, this house was home to Trumbull Cary, founder of the Bank of Genesee, a New York senator, and Batavia's first treasurer. Trumbull lived in the home with his wife Margaret and son Walter. The mansion was demolished in 1964. The Cary mansion was a prime example of Greek Revival style architecture. Two fluted, Ionic columns frame each side of the door with an elaborate semicircular window above. Four squares with floral motifs sit above each column, and the Great Seal of the United States sits in the center, above the door. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, Ihna Thayer Frary was a prominent American art and architecture scholar, whose primary interest was the architectural heritage of the region of northeastern Ohio known as the Western Reserve. In addition to serving as publicity and membership secretary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he was a professor of Ohio and American architecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, Frary was a design consultant for private clients and designed furniture, and was an active member of several prominent arts councils in the Cleveland area. In 1963, Frary and his two sons donated his entire photographic collection to the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). The Ihna Thayer Frary Collection consists of 4,000 5 x 7 photographs of private residences, churches, taverns, and public buildings, as well as select rural buildings, bridges, archaeological sites, and public monuments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P112_B54B_3688_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Domestic architecture; Doors & doorways; Classical Revival (European revival style)
Places: Batavia (New York)