Photos of Indiana's Historic Courthouses, along with some others
You’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d taken a wrong turn at French Lick and wound up in the antebellum south the first time you arrive in Paoli. Just look at the courthouse there, standing proudly amidst an expansive green in the middle of the town’s Lancaster square, where cars go around the building like […]
Read More Orange County- Paoli (1850-)As Sullivan County officials planned a new building to replace their antiquated 1852 courthouse, they hit the road and visited several in western Indiana for inspiration. Loaded with money from the coal mining industry that was burgeoning there1, they eventually wound up in Newport, the seat of Vermillion County. So struck were they by the […]
Read More Sullivan County- Sullivan (1926-)Like any 90s kid, I know a thing or two about LEGOs. I still play with them today through official CAD software that lets me design things without losing pieces or later finding them wedged into the soft part of my foot. Last spring, a miniature Fort Wayne I created as an homage to the […]
Read More Gibson County- Princeton (1884-)Residents of Spencer County and its diminutive county seat were so proud of their 1921 courthouse that the Rockport Journal announced that it would “be a thing of beauty and a joy, if not forever, at least for a hundred years1.” While forty-two courthouses across the state have come and gone since then, the paper’s […]
Read More Spencer County- Rockport (1921-)