Courthouses of the West: Federal Courthouse, Sheridan Wyoming

Courthouses of the West: Federal Courthouse, Sheridan Wyoming:

Now no longer a courthouse, but a private building.  Featured here on an earlier thread on that topic.

Monday at the bar: Courthouses of the West: Sheridan County Wyoming Courthouse, Sheridan Wyomi...

Courthouses of the West: Sheridan County Wyoming Courthouse, Sheridan Wyomi...:

Monday at the Bar: Courthouses of the West: Sheridan County Drug Court, Sheridan Wyoming

Courthouses of the West: Sheridan County Drug Court, Sheridan Wyoming:

This court is now the "drug court", but it was pretty clearly an early courthouse in Sheridan that was preserved and later converted t this use. As the existing courthouse in Sheridan is quite old, my guess that this one doesn't predate the other (maybe) but that it might have served some other court rather than the district court.

The Big Picture: Sheridan Wyoming in 1909

The Sheridan Inn

A couple of weeks ago I posted on The Plains Hotel in Cheyenne. That was, as readers will recall, a Cheyenne Hotel that was built in 1911.

This is an even older hotel, The Sheridan Inn. It was built in 1893, and like The Plains, it's right across from the tracks. Indeed, it's much closer to the railroad. No doubt the idea was to keep travelers from having to carry their luggage far.

Courthouses of the West: Federal Courthouse, Sheridan Wyoming

Here's an another example of a disappearing Federal Courthouse presence. Courthouses of the West: Federal Courthouse, Sheridan Wyoming.

This topic, i.e., the construction, and then the abandonment, of Federal Courthouses in Wyoming was addressed here a bit earlier.

It's hard not to notice how nice two out of the three abandoned Wyoming Federal Courthouses are (I haven't seen the third, that I know of, so it may be just as nice, it's used as a library today). I'm sure the courtrooms were very small, and probably they'd be regarded as inadequate for most Federal courtroom usages today, but still, it's hard to understand why the Federal government would have abandoned such nice structures, and not preserved them for their intended use.

The Big Picture: Sheridan Wyoming. 1909

Sheridan Wyoming, 1909.