[Cowboy Bob]

In the deep south, many beautiful old courthouses were torn down and replaced with monstrosities. What a shame.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You see that all over the United States and Canada. Magnificent, gorgeous old courthouses and school buildings built in the 1880s and later torn down and replaced with extremely ugly single-story flat roof monstrosities.

I’m doing genealogical research and looking at small towns in North Dakota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. It’s the same story everywhere.

[Hootowl99]

Yep, many are gone to destruction as you describe but others still remain. A significant number that were too small for a growing population have been replaced by a larger modern style somewhere in town. Others have been refurbished into other city/county office space or local museums.

In my town, the county courthouse in the town square is now a museum. In the county north of me, the classic courthouse houses other offices such as the tax assessor and clerks offices. The courts are in a new building at the semi-rural fringes of town next to a new jail.