Thurston County Courthouse in Pender, Nebraska is a Late Victorian style building.

[2] The 1927 conversion created permanent courthouse space adequate for the court, which was desirable to settle dispute within the county about the county seat's proper location.

As part of promoting a county seat change, Walthill proponents sued the county commissioners to dispute the leasing arrangement in a case that won in a lower court and then went up to the Nebraska Supreme Court, which upheld the leasing arrangement and reversed the lower court decision.

Walthill also pursued a petition drive which failed after Pender advocates established that there was fraud in obtaining signatures.

This article about a property in Nebraska on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.