Frontier County Courthouse (Stockville, Nebraska)
This interesting Federal-style courthouse was built in 1888-89 with the designs of Sebastian Binger. It is located in the second least populous county seat in Nebraska, which is Stockville with around 30 people (just a bit bigger that Brewster). It is one of only two working wood-frame, non-masonry courthouses in Nebraska. The other one serves Blaine County.
It is believed by many inside the courthouse to be the last courthouse in the nation to get indoor plumbing and to have a paved road to connect it to the rest of the national infrastructure. Today there is only one paved highway to the courthouse. Starting in the 1920s about every ten years the county held an election to move the seat of government to the nearby town of Curtis, which has about 1,000 people. Those elections stopped after 1984 when the county installed indoor plumbing; now the outhouse is used just for the park at the courthouse square. Before the plumbing came there were never any women to serve on juries in the county; it was thought to be too big of an inconvenience to the women of the county to use the outhouse.
It is places like this that make me very glad to have this hobby.
Frontier County Courthouse (Stockville, Nebraska)
This interesting Federal-style courthouse was built in 1888-89 with the designs of Sebastian Binger. It is located in the second least populous county seat in Nebraska, which is Stockville with around 30 people (just a bit bigger that Brewster). It is one of only two working wood-frame, non-masonry courthouses in Nebraska. The other one serves Blaine County.
It is believed by many inside the courthouse to be the last courthouse in the nation to get indoor plumbing and to have a paved road to connect it to the rest of the national infrastructure. Today there is only one paved highway to the courthouse. Starting in the 1920s about every ten years the county held an election to move the seat of government to the nearby town of Curtis, which has about 1,000 people. Those elections stopped after 1984 when the county installed indoor plumbing; now the outhouse is used just for the park at the courthouse square. Before the plumbing came there were never any women to serve on juries in the county; it was thought to be too big of an inconvenience to the women of the county to use the outhouse.
It is places like this that make me very glad to have this hobby.