The LaPorte County, Indiana Courthouse (1894-)

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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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The Ohio County Courthouse in Indiana (1845-)

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Here in Indiana, a typical county measures just over 389 square miles. Somehow, Ohio County only checks in at a measly eighty-six1. It’s not only the state’s smallest county, but it’s the tiniest in the entire nation! There, in Rising Sun, the oldest operating courthouse in the state administers justice to about 6,000 residents. 

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