 An 1887 description of the courthouse called it " a plain building … its architecture characteristic of the pioneer times " . It also said the building " is still good enough were it only in better repair . " On January 19 , 1893 , Judge Joseph L. Custer declared the " courtroom to be an inadequate place for the transaction of the business of this court " , and that court business " be held elsewhere in some suitable place in the county seat . " 
