[1] The County Board of Supervisors noted at the time that the selected plan "cost more money (but) it was the only one which for size, fire-proof qualities, and solidity would answer the purpose, and was indeed, in the matter of taste and elegance, much in advance of any other.

"[1] However, the author of the 1915 The County Archives of the State of Illinois called the building "hardly fireproof".

[3] John C. Cochrane, a Chicago architect [1] designed the Livingston County Courthouse in Second Empire style.

The Livingston County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1986.

[1] The building was the seat of judicial activity in Livingston County, Illinois from 1875 until the 21st century, and it is a locally excellent example of Second Empire style.