Chicago architect Gurdon P. Randall designed the courthouse in a combination of the Italianate and Second Empire styles.

Randall's design features an arched loggia surrounding the building's southern entrance, asymmetrical towers at the southern corners with mansard roofs and bracketed cornices, arched dormers within the towers' mansards, and an assortment of round-head and bulls-eye windows.

One of the towers houses a 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) bell, which was intended to be part of a clock that was never installed.

[2] The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 19, 1986.

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