Um. Wow. This is a really busy and filled town with many chains. Something I wasn't expecting at all!

^The BGSU influence, I'm sure.

Beautiful, healthy-looking downtown and a wonderful courthouse.

 

Wood County is an Ohio pioneer in wind power. At the Wood County landfill on US 6 are four 1.8-megawatt turbines that stand 391 feet tall to the top of the rotor's arc. IIRC you can see these towering beauties from about four miles away, approaching from the West.

A lot of it is good-looking with a touch of NW Ohio ugly thrown in. I'll have to stop over here sometime.

The campus is hideous but the town is quite quaint.

This is like an idealized Midwestern American small town.  Beautiful courthouse, beautiful (and occupied) rows of businesses, everything painted and clean and shipshape.  I had heard from friends that it was really very nice, and the pictures sure seem to show that.  But like ColDay says, they as well say that the campus itself sucks pond water--bland 60s at its very worst.  Architecture by state committee. 

Love these little tours.  One of these years I've got to get back there......

haha -- it's bee gee.

 

i believe the first building is my old dorm, although who would know as the campus is filled with that type of police state architecture. i see a couple more apts i lived in downtown, too. all looks well in town and pretty much the same as always. thats not a bad thing at all.

 

as for the school - believe it or not the original bg campus has some charm. unfortunately, that consists of about five old buildings. all the other 95% are beyond ugly. in fact hideous is too nice a word. but you're not at bgsu for the architecture....you're there for the girls to guys ratio.  :laugh:

 

Wow, that is one of the coolest courthouses I've ever seen.  Did that architect do any other government buildings?

Wow, that is one of the coolest courthouses I've ever seen.  Did that architect do any other government buildings?

 

Designed by Yost & Packard (Frank Packard).

 

There's a nice web site devoted to the history here

^You beat me to it Rob, but great website!

 

UrbanSurfin did a great thread on Packard's work in Columbus: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,6140.0.html

 

At Miami University, Packard did Alumni Library (a Carnegie), Bishop Hall,  Wells Hall, and two wings of McGuffey Hall, which are all directly adjacent to one another. Packard did Ohio University's Carnegie as well, but it is a much simpler design without a rotunda.

that first picture made me want to hurl... but the downtown is charming

^Yep, Bowling Green's version of Pruitt-Igoe, and it remains!

^You beat me to it Rob, but great website!

 

UrbanSurfin did a great thread on Packard's work in Columbus: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,6140.0.html

 

At Miami University, Packard did Alumni Library (a Carnegie), Bishop Hall,  Wells Hall, and two wings of McGuffey Hall, which are all directly adjacent to one another. Packard did Ohio University's Carnegie as well, but it is a much simpler design without a rotunda.

 

Thanks for mentioning. I was just about to bring up that thread. Frank Packard did a lot of state and local-government buildings around Ohio. I'd like to find a comprehensive list is anybody has any suggestions. I believe there were some state hospitals, among other things.

^Besides what I mentioned above, Packard also did the Manchester Inn Hotel in Middletown and the 1915 Hamilton High School, although a local architect assisted on HHS. That makes at least six projects in Butler County alone.

that first picture made me want to hurl... but the downtown is charming

 

haha -- don't worry i hurled in there for ya. prob more than once.  :drunk:  :laugh:

^Besides what I mentioned above, Packard also did the Manchester Inn Hotel in Middletown and the 1915 Hamilton High School, although a local architect assisted on HHS. That makes at least six projects in Butler County alone.

 

Thanks. I didn't know about the Middletown and Hamilton ones. And didn't know much about the other Butler County stuff.