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I really enjoyed designing the second Fennimore County Courthouse, ostensibly the 1889 design work of William Halsey Wood. It was modeled after the Cerro Gordo county facility a hundred miles away in northeastern Iowa, but other similar facilities keep showing up I hadn’t known. Take a look at the Caldwell County building in Kingston, Missouri. Frankly, I like mine better.
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