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The Whitley County Courthouse is an historic courthouse building located at Van Buren and Main Streets in Columbia City, Indiana, the seat of Whitley County.It was constructed in 1888, and is a three-story, cruciform plan, French Renaissance style Indiana limestone building designed by Brentwood S. Tolan.
The district encompasses 197 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Columbia City. It developed between about 1840 and 1937 and includes representative examples of Greek Revival , Italianate , Queen Anne , Second Empire , Classical Revival , and Bungalow / American Craftsman style ...
Columbia City was founded in 1839, originally just being called "Columbia". The name was later changed in 1854 since there was already a city named Columbia in the state. Many public debates were held to discuss different names for the city, but it was later only reduced to two: "Beaver" and "Columbia City." Eventually, the name Columbia City ...
In 1837, right before Van Buren became President, a cheesemaker from western New York sent to the White House a block of cheese so enormous (1,400 lbs.!) that it had to be kept in the foyer for ...
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is a unit of the United States National Park Service in Columbia County, New York, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village of Kinderhook, 125 miles (201 km) north of New York City and 20 miles (32 km) south of Albany.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. President of the United States from 1837 to 1841 "Van Buren" redirects here. For other uses, see Van Buren (disambiguation). In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Buren, not Buren. Martin Van Buren Van Buren, c. 1855–1858 8th President of the United States In office March 4, 1837 ...
The Van Buren opened in the building on August 23, 2017 (Cold War Kids was the inaugural performance). [8] There was enough space to fit 1,700 to 1,900 concertgoers. [ 6 ] The 1,900 capacity concert hall was voted Best New Music Venue in 2017, [ 9 ] Best Large Venue in 2019, [ 10 ] and Best Medium-Sized Venue in 2020. [ 11 ]
In 1776, Abraham Van Buren married Maria Hoes (or Goes) Van Alen (1747–1818), the widow of Johannes Van Alen. [ 7 ] Although both Abraham and Maria Van Buren were fifth generation residents of the Province of New York , all of their forebears were of Dutch ancestry, as was the case for most of Kinderhook's residents, and they still spoke ...