File:Monumental Building, Court Street and Ohio Avenue, Sidney, OH - 52523320794.jpg

English: Built in 1875-1877, this Gothic Revival-style building was built to house a municipal opera house on the top floor and offices for the City of Sidney, and was dedicated as a memorial to those from Shelby County who had died in the Civil War. The building features a stone-clad front facade and red brick-clad rear and side facades, a mansard roof, steep gables at the dormers and facades, gothic arched two-over-two windows, bracketed cornice, buttresses at the corners with gables at the top, a wall former on the front facade with a statue niche at the top, corinthian pilasters and decorative trim, trifoil windows at the corners of the second floor, oxeye windows at the corners of the fourth floor, gabled dormers, a first floor retail shopfront at the front of the building with stone pilasters and replacement storefronts, a south entrance with a stone surround, oxeye window above, and corinthian engaged columns, garage bays at the west end of the south facade, with three gables above, and recessed storefronts on the south facade with arcades featuring gothic arches and corinthian columns, separated by stone pilasters. The building housed the City of Sidney, the Sidney Police Department, and the Sidney Fire Department until 1939, when the Municipal Building was built on on West Avenue, with the building presently housing the municipal court, along with the offices of the Shelby County Veterans Services. The building is a contributing structure in the Sidney Courthouse Square Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.