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Lots of weird stuff in Baltimore.
Also couldn't help but notice the office building the detectives work out of once they move out of the mud flooded basement is surrounded by dirt, with a giant doorway. Imagine it would've looked quite grand inside and out in its original condition. And that F**king group home building, man. Anyone else remember that? I'm amazed they kept the original 18 foot door for so long.
I've had to condition myself to check out the door frame in old cities, even my own home town, because renovated glass doors can be deceiving and you often won't notice there's a spacer above it that fills out what was originally a huge doorway.
On the topic of the courthouse, I've noticed a lot of old courthouses have wood interiors for the most part, but with a relatively high degree of decoration and flair usually. I'm not actually sure how original this is. We're used to interiors being made of geopolymer but I'm open to considering the wood could be relatively recent additions, no earlier than 1930 since we seemed to forget everything about old construction around then. I think there's scant evidence to suggest up to then people were still capable of producing pretty high quality stuff. Not to the level we usually associate with the exterior but undoubtedly superior to what we can/do now.
I can't imagine that their original purposes had anything to do with court or anything resembling court, except unless they served a similar purpose to chapels and a lot of seating would be required. But we don't see any giant sized seating in courthouses, constrating to doors and windows.
