West Virginia’s Monongalia County Courthouse in Morgantown (1891-)

Read time: 4 min.

When I first started taking pictures of Indiana’s county courthouses, I never imagined the hobby would take me all the way to a chain of them in West Virginia. Hoosier borders felt plenty wide enough, but life had a funny way of expanding my map: seven years ago, a cousin’s wedding gave me the perfect excuse to cross several state lines and see what lay beyond. As I wound through the hills, I couldn’t resist pulling over for a few shots. One of the buildings I found was the Monongalia County Courthouse in Morgantown. 

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The LaPorte County, Indiana Courthouse (1894-)

Read time: 6 min.

People like to assign human traits and characteristics to animals and inanimate objects. There are myriad psychological, social, and cultural reasons we do it. I tend to anthropomorphize courthouses. To me, LaPorte County’s looks like a Cyclops belting out his favorite tune! Its open-arched clock tower was designed to let natural light flood through a 273-piece skylight1.

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