Marquette County Courthouse

The Marquette County Courthouse is a Neoclassical Revival building designed by Charlton and Gilbert of Marquette and constructed in 1902-04 of local sandstone at a cost of $210,000 as the second courthouse on this site. In a case tried here in 1913, President Theodore Roosevelt won a libel suit against Ishpeming newspaper publisher George Newett and was awarded six cents, “the price of a good newspaper.” Another case tried here inspired Anatomy of a Murder, a novel by Ishpeming resident John D. Voelker. In 1959 the courthouse served as the setting of the motion picture based on the novel, directed by Otto Preminger with a musical score written by Duke Ellington. The courthouse was renovated in 1982-84 at a cost of $2.4 million.

Marquette, Michigan · United States