Another interesting sidenote is that the St Joseph courthouse was also the result of a much litigated county seat relocation. The contract provided for completion during the year of 1897. However, construction was not actualy completed until the spring of 1898. The basic structure is of reinforced concrete and brick with a completre stone exterior. The roof trusses are steel and the roof deck is of concrete slab.
Windows are high with skylights on the upper two floors.
The final result was graced with marble floors and wainscotting, wrought-iron stair and balcony railings, solid quartersawn oak doors and paneling, and deeply molded high ceilings on the upper floors. Many of these features remain today and are the enticements that often bring admirers of old courthouse architecture with their cameras and sketchboards to Eureka. Over the years since it was completed, the structure has undergone numerous changes and repairs. There have been numerous substantial roof repairs, seven in all, the first being in 1905 and the most recent in 1994. Early in its history the lawn was graced with a pair of Civil War cannons until 1942 when they were donated for scrap metal purposes to the war effort.