The Courthouse

  I just have to show a B&W version, the trouble is I am having trouble deciding which filtered version I like best.

Clock tower....

 One more detail of the Edgar County courthouse in Illinois.

Edgar County Courthouse detail....

 This courhouse is a beauty.  I would love to know if the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Johnson County courthouse

A drive-by shot of Johnson County Courthouse here in Indiana.  Taken in 2011.

From last month

I took this last month and never did get it posted...this is the courthouse in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Quick glance Johnson County Courthouse in Franklin, Indiana

I only had a slight chance at a shot of this courthouse at all...Roger would have stopped but we still had 650 +/- a few miles left to go so did not want to stop on the way to Tennessee...then on the way back home, we just wanted to get home. However, I hope someday to go back there for lots of pictures. It was a beauty....

Bits & pieces of the Parke County Courthouse

Another local courthouse...one I have only taken drive-bys of prior to this...and none of them successful. I attempted to capture some of the features of this courthouse a week or two ago.
To me, another title of this post could have been Stacked. Seems like one beautiful feature is stacked on top of another.
The doors are beautiful...not overly decorated, but still beautiful.
And the top of the courthouse is a real winner....I always wonder does anyone ever go up to the top.

Presenting the Edgar Country Courthous in all its glory....

First we have a side view of it....apparently they are still working on it.
Then we have a view from the corner...I like that the entrances are on the corners. I think this maybe the only courthouse I have seen that. Please take a moment to click these photos...as with all the photos on this blog...they should enlarge.

More of the Edgar County Courthouse...

Just a couple more pictures of this place...
I think it one of the more appealing courthouses. At least if you worked here, it would be a beautiful sight that greeted you each morn.

Edgar County courthouse details

Just imagine the work that went into this place...and the talent.
Whoever planned this and whoever executed the design were true artists.
I have never been inside the place, but think one of these days I will go take a look inside. I bet the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Edgar County courthouse

I always think this courthouse is just beaufiful...they have been working on it...it used to look like this.....then for a while it looked like this.....and now it looks like the photo above. I will be showing a few more photos of it over the next few days.

The stairs

Even the stairs were amazing at the Noble County Courthouse....I have never seen any so ornate.
Again I have played with the lighting...if it is really bad please tell me.
I don't think I would mind seeing these steps everyday.

Let there be light

I hope you can see this...I have played with it in photo shop because I think it was too dark. Hopefully I have not went too far the other way. It is so hard to tell what things look like on a laptop.

Anyway, it is in the Noble County Courthouse...I think the judge told us it had been restored. It sure is a beauty.

Here we have Noble County Courthouse

On my other blog, I have posted the Old Jail Museum in Albion, Indiana--which is the county seat of Noble Country. I just happened to see it when we stopped for me to take photos of this courthouse.
I think it is one of the most beautiful courthouses I have seen....
I could not take it all in in one shot.
And these are just the outside of the building.
I hope that you take the time to click on the pictures....they are even better when enlarged.

See the gentleman with the blue shirt in the above photo...we were talking to him. He suggested we go inside, and told us there were old photos on the walls taken way, way back. (He is also who told us about the Old Jail Museum on my Pics & Pieces Blog.)

When we finally made it inside, he was in there and he grabbed a judge and told him he should take us around and tell us about the courthouse. The judge was so nice and friendly, and even took us to the third floor and opened this one courtroom that had been restored to the way it was originally. I did not take photos..I felt rude taking photos with him talking, but now I wish I had asked him if he minded.

I sure wish this were closer--I am sure I would be taking lots of photos there.