File:Old City Hall, Wooster Street, Bowling Green, OH - 52393816464.jpg

English: Built in 1892-93, this Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne-style building was constructed by the City of Bowling Green, and, until the Wood County Courthouse was completed in 1896, it also housed the county courthouse. The building originally housed Bowling Green City Hall, the Bowling Green Police Department, and the Bowling Green Fire Department, which served the rapidly-growing city that had recently entered a period of rapid growth fueled by the discovery and extraction of oil nearby. The building features a hipped roof, red brick exterior, rusticated stone base, replacement windows, a tower with corner pilasters, an oversized octagonal open lantern at the top with Romanesque-style columns and arches, decorative balustrades at the top of the tower, and large brackets supporting the cantilevered sections of the balustrades, gabled dormers, cast iron cresting, a decorative window lintel above the second floor window on the tower, rusticated stone lintels and sills, a bay window on the east side of the building with an octagonal pyramidal roof, quoins flanking the windows, a smaller tower on the west facade with a circular attic vent framed by rusticated stone and topped with a pyramidal roof, ground floor garage doors on the west facade that formerly housed the Bowling Green Fire Department, and a large two-story rusticated stone surround at the front entrance, which sits at the base of the building’s main tower, which features a tall arched opening filled with a contemporary storefront, decorative Romanesque carved block trim, and the words “City-Building” carved on a large block at the top of the surround. The building was outgrown by the City of Bowling Green in the 20th Century, and today houses the Bowling Green Police Department. The building is a contributing structure in the Main Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.