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The courthouse in 2005 The Grant County Courthouse , built in 1902, is an historic glass-and-copper-domed county courthouse building located at 126 West Main Street in Lancaster, Wisconsin . Designed by Armand D. Koch in the Classical Revival style, it was built of red sandstone .
Grant County is the most southwestern county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,938. [2] Its county seat is Lancaster and its largest city is Platteville. [3] The county is named after the Grant River, in turn named after a fur trader who lived in the area when Wisconsin was a territory. [4]
Lancaster is located at (42.848505, −90.710430 Lancaster is located in the unglaciated "Driftless Area" of southwest Wisconsin whose topography is strikingly different from that of the rest of the state.
Lancaster: Intact historic downtown centered around the courthouse, including the 1868 Commercial Vernacular-styled Wright House Hotel, [25] the 1888 Italianate Showalter Building, [26] the 1894 Romanesque Revival Reed Opera House, [27] the 1901 Richardsonian Romanesque I.O.O.F. Hall (pictured), [28] the 1903 Neoclassical First National Bank of ...
[1] [2] The concept of a mixed-use city hall and theater was likely inspired by the Richland Center City Auditorium built in nearby Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1912. [2] The building has had several modifications since its original construction.
With the exception of the 1982 court-ordered redistricting plan, which scrambled all State Assembly districts, [7] the 49th district has remained based in Grant County since 1972. The boundaries have varied somewhat, utilizing different combinations of neighboring municipalities in Richland, Iowa , and Lafayette counties.
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The Milwaukee County Circuit Court has the greatest number of branches with 47. The circuit courts are organized into 9 geographical administrative districts. [3] Within each district the Wisconsin Supreme Court will appoint a chief judge, a deputy chief judge, and a professional district court administrator. [3]