It's Friday in late July, so time for something a little different. You know what I haven't had -- I think ever? A modern courthouse trivia question. So digging into my files from a couple of years ago, where is this courthouse? I don't think I've ever had a courthouse trivia question from this state before, though I've had other trivia from it.
Small forgettable city in the deep South that shares a name with a large unforgettable city in Europe?
Posted by: RH | July 22, 2016 at 11:25 AM
Very nicely done, RH. Quite poetic answer. You get bonus points for that.
Though from the vantage of one who lives in NC, I'm not sure I'd say the state where this is is "deep south" -- culturally deep south, yes. But not Alabama, which also has a city by this name.
Posted by: Al Brophy | July 22, 2016 at 01:26 PM
Paris, Texas?
Posted by: Bigeye | July 22, 2016 at 03:45 PM
There's no Paris, Alabama that I know of.
Posted by: Al Brophy | July 22, 2016 at 04:03 PM
An excellent puzzler, Al, as there are not a yuuge number of brutalist courthouses around. And not many in a southern city that shares the name of a Tuscany city, let alone a city with what was a once-common female first name.
The famous brutalist Breuer did the Strom Thurmond courthouse in the same state. As best I can tell, the one you picture was not done by a famous architect (and certainly wasn't done by Breuer).
Posted by: Howard Katz | July 22, 2016 at 09:46 PM