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La Porte County's Second Court House, c. 1848.931 viewsBy 1847, La Porte County had outgrown its original 1834 brick court house, and a contract was awarded to Luther Mann, Jr., to build a new, larger building on the same site. It was built in the Greek Revival style popular at the time, and was designed by Chicago architect John Van Osdel. Van Osdel had founded the first architectural firm in Chicago in 1844, being brought from New York by Chicago's first mayor in 1836, to design his home. He was also the architect of the court house in South Bend that until recent years served as the home of the Northern Indiana Historical Society, and that building still stands in South Bend. Today, one can see a reminder of La Porte's Second Court House pictured here by driving by the future home of the La Porte County Historical Society in the former Door Prairie Auto Museum building on Indiana Avenue, coming in the south side of La Porte. Dr. Peter Kesling, the museum's builder, had the clock tower replicated exactly, from this photograph, to surmount his auto museum building.

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Hate Mongers19764 viewshttp://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html



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Monon Railroad4195 viewsPicnic train arriving at Cedar Lake around 1900. The Monon Railroad ran 4 trains a day from Chicago to Cedar Lake during its heyday. The boats along the dock were waiting to take people to the lakeside hotels. (Photo courtesy of Lake County Historical Museum)
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Steel Strike 19194819 viewsTroops, called in to keep the peace during the 1919 steel strike, occupy the "Commercial Club" building in Gary. (Photo courtesy of Calumet Region Archives, Indiana University Northwest)
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Zeverly1815 viewsWilliam Zeverly, Michigan City, Indiana, with unidentified woman. Mother, Mrs. Mary Hoskins, supplied the photograph, circa 1920, for publication in the Gold Star Honor Roll which lists Indiana men and women killed in World War I.
Indiana State Archives.

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Gary Elks and Palace Theatre 19272422 viewsGary Elks and Palace Theatre 1927
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Old car on square1747 viewsHayward Photography Studio, well known throughout Lake County, located on North Main Street just north of the courthouse square. (Notice the wood sidewalks.)
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Gary 19082531 viewsFebruary 1908 - The coming of the US Steel facility to NW Indiana brought quite a change. Gary went from non-existence to a bustling city of brick buildings, wide paved street, a trolley system, and broad concrete sidewalks in a matter of just a few years. 1906 to about 1910. (Photo courtesy of Calumet Region Archives, Indiana University Northwest)
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Kitchel's Lodge3106 viewsKitchel's Lodge in Merrillville in the late 1930's. It was located on the southwest corner of Route 30 & Taft Street. (Photo courtesy of Merrillville/Ross Twp. Historical Society Museum)
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