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The Allen County, Indiana Courthouse (1902-)

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The Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne is the most magnificent in Indiana. There aren’t even many state capitols that match its opulence! In fact, the courthouse towers over thirty of them. Completed in 1902, the courthouse was designed to anticipate the needs of Allen County for at least a century as the crown jewel of Fort Wayne. Its completion was such an enormous event that no less than Teddy Roosevelt, the President of the United States, was scheduled to speak at its dedication1.

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The Auglaize County, Ohio Courthouse (1894-)

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Maybe it’s due to all of the oversharing millennials like me, but being “quirky” seems to be in vogue these days. The possession of odd or unusual qualities that are ultimately endearing is a great thing, I think my cohort thinks, but although I have all manner of bizarre eccentricities and predispositions, none of them are all that adorable.

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The Putnam County, Ohio Courthouse (1912-)

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Susan Thrane kicks off Putnam County’s entry in her book County Courthouses of Ohio by noting that the courthouse commission’s intent was to create a structure “larger than necessary for present needs” way back in 1910. “We are not building for ourselves alone any more than the Revolutionary patriots fought for themselves 134 years ago,” officials explained. “Their blood gave us liberty today.”

“We want to give something to those who live after us. In the year A.D. 2000 may our posterity say that ‘they builded wiser than they knew1.’”

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