Vernon Courthouse - Vernon, BC - Bookcrossing Zones on Waymarking.com

Below is a view of the Vernon Courthouse, half not long after it was completed in 1914, the other half taken in 2014. We imagine this was its baby portrait, as it's the earliest photo of the completed building we've yet found. Outwardly, at least, it has changed not at all in its century plus of dispensing justice to all and sundry.

A mere 91 years after its construction, the courthouse became a BookCrossing Zone with the release of The Firm, a book by John Grisham about justice, law and lawyers (very crooked lawyers), on Wednesday, February 16, 2005.

3001 27th Street
The excavation for Vernon's second courthouse was begun in November, 1911 and construction started the following April. Designed by architect Thomas Hooper of Vancouver; this imposing Romanesque structure used local granite exterior veneer from the quarry on the east side of Okanagan Lake. Local brick was used for interior walls, along with B.C. marble for wainscotting and B.C. fir for interior trim. The total cost of construction was approximately $200.000. The first County Court meeting was held on opening day Dec. 17,1914.
From the Sign on the Building