Homer Claiborne Parish Courthouse

The courthouse in Homer went up in 1861, built in Greek Revival with a pedimented portico on the town square. Louisiana seceded in January of that year. The war came. The building stayed. It is one of Louisiana's few antebellum courthouses still doing government work—still the seat of Claiborne Parish, listed on the National Register, still open during business hours. The Greek Revival façade faces the square. The building performs the same function it was built for. Walk in and the government of Claiborne Parish is there, transacting the ordinary business of a parish that has used this building for more than a century and a half. The reason to go is to stand in front of something that was built before the Civil War and never stopped being a courthouse. Most didn't make it. This one did.