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The county courthouse description was copied directly from the wikipedia article for Allen county Indiana. This information was gleaned from a history of Kansas as noted by the citation.

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 === County Courthouse ===
 {{KS Courthouse Intro|Allen}}
-The Allen County Courthouse was designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne, and was built by James Stewart and Company of Saint Louis, Missouri. When the cornerstone was laid in 1897, the oldest man in the county, Louis Peltier, was present; he remembered Fort Wayne when it was a fort. The courthouse was completed in 1903 at a total cost of $817,553. Built in the Beaux-Arts architecture style, it was one of the most expensive courthouses in the state. It also was filled with artwork that cost more than other entire courthouses of the time. The courthouse has been protected as a National Historic Landmark since 2003. The building is now used primarily as a government annex, as most of the offices were moved across Main Street to the Edwin J. Rousseau Centre in 1971.[22]
+In 1866, the county purchased a building from George J. Eldridge which was used for county offices and the court house. A different building was purchased in 1877.<ref>Cutler, William G. ''History of the state of Kansas''. Chicago: A.T. Andreas. 1883.</ref>
 '''Allen County Courthouse'''<br>1 N. Washington<br>Iola, Kansas 66749-2841<br>Phone: 316.365.7491<br>