Old Indiana County Courthouse

The former Indiana County Courthouse, which is now referred to as Old Indiana County Courthouse, located in Indiana and was until 1970 the Court House of the Indiana counties. It was built in 1869-1870. The design came from the local architect James W. Drum and chronologically the second building, which answered its purpose, after the previous building was canceled in 1868. The cost was U.S. $ 150,000 (1870 ). The inauguration took place on 19 December 1870. On this occasion, held the former governor of the State of Pennsylvania, William F. Johnston, a speech.

The Italianate architecture of the building in the Second Empire style is based primarily on a red brick and stone. The roof was designed as a mansard roof. The Courthouse has a four-sided clock tower, whose Kuppelmit is gold leaf. The main meeting room on the second floor measured 30 m in length and 25 m in width. The ceiling height was around nine meters.

The large clock in the dome was the time of their installation, the largest in the county. It was built by the Howard Clock Company of Boston and Springfield (Ohio ). The dials on the four sides have a diameter of about 210 cm. The clock had to be wound once, which took 15 minutes to complete during the week.

Next door the sheriff's office and a prison was built in 1879, which was structurally connected to the courthouse to ask about detainees and convicts. At least six convicts were hanged 1882-1913 in the courtyard of the court.

On the cover of this issue of 24 September 1945, the LIFE magazine was born in Indiana James Stewart was mapped to the Courthouse in the background. John F. Kennedy made during the campaign for the 1960 presidential election outside the building a speech.

The last meeting was held in place on 11 November 1970. After the commissioning of the new building was the old Courthouse no longer used and the demolition was scheduled. The Countyverwaltung closed on 3 January 1972 a contract with the National Bank of the Commonwealth, the proposed a renovation to use the building for administrative purposes. NBOC had to spend in the first three years, $ 100,000 Renovation to have every year for the other 47 years the holder of a lease to 12,000 U.S. dollars.

The courthouse was added on 29 October 1974 in the National Register of Historic Places. It is used in the present ( 2009) the First Commonwealth Financial as an office building. A model of the building is located in the Miniature Railroad & Village at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh.

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• John F. Busovicki: Indiana County ( English ). Arcadia Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0,738,511,811th