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, Indiana. 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 structure like it’s part of a big traffic circle: Though the overall design of the courthouse itself is thought to have been lifted from a pattern book¹, the Greek Revival building does feature something that’s unique to other courthouses in Indiana: a set of petticoat stairs.