Photos of Indiana's Historic Courthouses, along with some others
An architectural trend that’s become apparent to me over the last few years is something that I call “American Exuberance”. Our first courthouses were built with zero frills out of logs or milled wood as functional structures. Soon, settlers upgraded to simple, brick buildings, and by the 1840s, local governments got hold of enough money […]
Read More Van Wert County, Ohio- Van Wert (1876-)Paulding County is a desolate place and I was not shocked to find out that it is the sixth-least-populated county in all of Ohio1. Perfect- I love places like that, especially since lately it seems like the my head has been the sixth-least populated cranium in all of Muncie over the past few weeks. Even […]
Read More Paulding County, Ohio- Paulding (1888-)I took an online rhetoric class at a community college last year that involved writing a persuasive paper. I focused on the value that historic courthouses provide their communities and how they tend to serve as commercial anchors to their downtowns. Any courthouse does that, but old ones demonstrated that courthouses with history contributed far […]
Read More Seneca County, Ohio- Tiffin (2017-)This sucks: I was reading about Theodore Roosevelt the other day, a giant of a man who happens to not only be my namesake, but someone who also hated being called Teddy. One of his famous quotations came after his daughter Alice -known for her outspoken celebrity- crashed an Oval Office meeting one too many […]
Read More Pickaway County, Ohio- Circleville (1847/1889-)I love collections and always have, at least since my parents labeled me “Mass Destructo Man” in my earliest days when I’d tear around the house, ransacking the place to find like objects to sort by size, color, shape, and so on. From youth to adulthood, my favorite hobbies have always been collections. I especially […]
Read More Darke County, Ohio- Greenville (1874-)