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The St. Joseph County, Indiana Courthouse (1967-69; 2015-)

Ted Shideler 2 Comments
Read time: 8 min.

Pete Buttigieg spent more time in the national news than any Indiana mayor in recent memory. His time in the spotlight meant that South Bend, the city that bestowed Pete’s former title, was too. TV pundits wrote the city off like it was some backwoods village, but South Bend’s got some heft to it. Along with two historic courthouses, the city’s home to a big, modern, one.

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The Marion County, Indiana Courthouse (1962-2022)

Ted Shideler 4 Comments
Read time: 9 min.

I have a hard time believing that the Indianapolis City-County Building is sixty years old this year. My frame of reference towards what’s old or not is still based on it being the year 2000! I was ten, and a sampling of sixty-year-old buildings would dig up a handful of Art Deco, Prairie Style, and Neo-Gothic structures. In other words, buildings that actually looked old and, in lots of ways, resembled the City-County Building’s predecessor, the 1876 Marion County Courthouse. 

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