Photos of Indiana's Historic Courthouses, along with some others
Right now, I’m up in northern Michigan celebrating the fiftieth year of my family’s ownership of our ninety acres of Missaukee County wilderness. The property, as we call it, is a spot I venture towards in order to camp out, connect with myself, and appreciate my family heritage. It’s a true source of pride for […]
Read More LaPorte County- Michigan City (1909-)Here it is, boys, the granddaddy of all Indiana Courthouses- Allen County’s in Fort Wayne. Take a second to feast your eyes, because you won’t find one this magnificent anywhere else in the state. Heck, you won’t even find many state capitols at this level of opulence. Finished in 1902 at a cost of $817,000 […]
Read More Allen County- Fort Wayne (1902-)In my view, a classic downtown should have a classic department store, and that was Wolf & Dessauer in Fort Wayne. Sam Wolf and Myron Dessauer opened their first mercantile, a humble dry goods store, in a two-story building on Calhoun Street in 1896. But by 1918, the store had become so popular that […]
Read More Allen County- Fort Wayne (2011-)Take a look at this building. Have you seen any like it before? And before you say so, no, the photo you clicked on to get here doesn’t count. The Clark County Courthouse in Jeffersonville is a striking structure. So striking, perhaps, that it almost seems crazy for a government building here in little old […]
Read More Clark County- Jeffersonville (1970-)Most of the state’s charming old courthouses can be found in southern Indiana. A great example is Greensburg’s in Decatur County. The 115-foot-tall building, built in 1860, is one of five pre-Civil War courthouses still utilized by county government today, along with those in Morgan, Ohio, Orange, and Jefferson counties. Constructed of pinkish brick, the […]
Read More Decatur County- Greensburg (1860-)As I’m happy to repeatedly assert without concession, we’re lucky to have so many historic courthouses in Indiana. But that’s not to say that keeping the venerable structures around has been easy! Courthouses across the state have been subject to wrecking balls, ugly renovations, tornadoes, and even bombings. It’s quite a portfolio of maladies that […]
Read More Porter County- Valparaiso (1883/1937-)