All Rise by bmac62

Photography • Architecture • posted on Nov 03, 2010

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Can you imagine...you are on trial...you and your defense lawyer sit behind one table, the prosecuting attorney sits behind the other table. A jury of 12 of your peers fills the jury box. The spectator seats are full. A large, uniformed, bald-headed baliff by the name of Bull commands, "All Rise"...and in comes a judge named Harry... Ok, a little dramatic:-))) But this is the courtroom in the Cottonwood Falls, Kansas courthouse that has served so well for the past 137 years. There's a lot more of the native walnut wood we saw in the staircase in this room...polished and ready to add dignity to the setting of the next court case. We heard there were jail cells through one of those doors...must be the one on the left. Those are the judge's chambers on the right. The ceiling is the original embossed tin. A rare sight anywhere in 2010. Everything else is as it was in 1873 except the paint, the carpet and the light fixtures. We were free to go wherever we wanted in here...but the dignity of the room kept us quiet and almost tiptoeing around while moving our tripods and taking our pictures. Bill "Symmetry"