La Grange County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“LaGrange County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located on Detroit Street in LaGrange, Indiana. Tolan, & Son, Architects of Fort Wayne, Indiana and built in 1878-1879.”
Wikipedia article LaGrange County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for LaGrange County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Detroit St., La Grange, 46761
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. building
Township. Bloomfield township
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 80000042 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of La Grange County Courthouse: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lagrange Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer
	Lambright Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bloomfield Township Graded School	2.6 miles	2022
Samuel P. Williams House	5.4 miles	1980
St. James Memorial Chapel	5.5 miles	2001
John Badlam Howe Mansion	5.5 miles	1995
Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District	7.2 miles	1995
Olde Store (John O'Ferrell Store)	7.7 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000042 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
LaGrange County	All 10 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.