Posted November 21, 201212 yr Crawfordsville, Indiana County seat of Montgomery county; Population about 15,000; served by two Amtrak lines; near the Illinois border. Montgomery county courthouse. It looks like the top is missing…found out that it was designed by George Bunting, and it had a clock tower. It developed a leaning problem and was removed in the 1940 decade.
November 21, 201212 yr Talk about a random Summit Street Thread. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 21, 201212 yr Nice upper-level facades, even where street levels experienced updates probably post-WWII. Crawfordsville is near Turkey Run State Park, with an abundance of hilly, rocky trails and good canoeing. George Bunting also designed two Romanesqe courthouses in Indiana, a limestone one in Liberty and a sandstone one in Bluffton. The one in Liberty was 95% complete, with move-in in progress, when its tower collapsed. No one was injured and the tower was immediately rebuilt and remains sound and in use. A few years ago, the one in Bluffton suddenly developed floor cracks in an area of the second floor. A study by a structural engineering firm found that since completion in 1890 the county clerk's document storage room had accumulated nearly seven tons of bound records of real estate transactions and court activities. The storage area was cleaned out and the cracked floor tiles were replaced, and the building appears stable since then. I still get a little nervous when I go there, though.
November 26, 201212 yr Nice built environment but certainly lots of vacancies especially on the upper floors of the commercial bldgs
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