The Gibson County Courthouse in Princeton, Indiana, is the centerpiece of a quintessential small-town square. Folks at Department 56 -the ceramic Christmas village company- agreed, and modeled their 1989 “Original Snow Village Courthouse” after it¹. The courthouse in Princeton may have reigned supreme on mantels and pie safes across middle America for thirty-five years, but the life-size building has been an Indiana landmark for a hundred and forty.