Photos of Indiana's Historic Courthouses, along with some others
The 1890s brought a lot of architectural changes to American society. For one, Second Empire -a French style that prioritized mansard roofs and elaborate, finicky ornamentation- began to fall by the wayside. The Richardson Romanesque mode, one that incorporated fortresslike massing and rounded arches, was also going the way of the Dodo by the decade’s […]
Read More St. Joseph County- South Bend (1898-1969, 1971-)Today we’ll time-travel back to 1830, hopefully landing in the town of St. Joseph located at “the portage of the St. Joseph and Kankakee Rivers1,” according to the Allen County Public Library’s Genealogy Center, which calls out the location as two miles south of South Bend’s center. A Google Maps search shows no such portage, […]
Read More St. Joseph County- South Bend (1855-1898; 2001-)My dad never missed an opportunity to provide me one of his most pertinent pieces of parental advice: “Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.” It was a lesson always close at hand during the time we spent together, exhibited in such disparate circumstances as building an eight-foot tall trebuchet in his backyard, buying […]
Read More Tippecanoe County- Lafayette (1884-)Big parts of Lake County aren’t very welcoming places right now, mainly in Gary. Though it’s made big strides to overcome its reputation over the past few years, the city has lots of work ahead yet. Its continued status as the nation’s third leader in annual murders per 10,000 residents doesn’t help its welcoming status […]
Read More Lake County- Gary (1929-)