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Hamilton County County Courthouse
Current Use:
The building continues to be used as the Hamilton County Courthouse and houses the Hamilton County Treasurers offices.
Historic photo is from Hamilton County Courthouse & Sheriff's Residence & Jail, by Mary Ellen Gadski, Noblesville: Hamilton County Historical Society, 1994, p. 35
Location: Courthouse Square
History of the Building:
Designed by Edwin May and constructed between 1877 and 1879, this crowned-jewel is a great Hoosier example of the French Renaissance Style of architecture.
Restored in 1992-94 to its former glory, the courthouse rises three stories to a mansard roof with tall chimneys, corner copings, iron cresting, and dormer and ocular windows.
The clock tower continues to operate.
Inside, a two-story courtroom was the site of the nationally famous 1925 trial of Ku Klux Klan leader, D. C. Stephenson.