On the Lincoln Highway in Indiana.
As it was along the Lincoln Highway in Ohio and Illinois, every reasonably sized city I drove through along the Lincoln in Indiana seemed to have some imposing civic buildings as well other fine old buildings. The county seats especially boast some very impressive looking county courthouses (often situated in handsome surviving courthouse squares), and Indiana even has a preservation law and a Courthouse Preservation Commission.
I found a website about them: Indiana courthouses. You’ll see a few in these pix to get a flavor for what I am trying to describe – all taken in Lincoln Highway cities.
There were quite a few Carnegie Libraries along the way, too.
That first picture of the Porter County Museum building was taken in Valparaiso (a/k/a “Valpo”) and is the former Old County Jail and Sheriff’s Residence. In the last picture one can see an original Lincoln Highway concrete marker on the grounds of the Marshall county courthouse along the 1928 route of the Lincoln Highway through Plymouth. In the second-to-last picture one can see that red brick courthouse which is said to be unusual for Indiana.
