The Todd County Courthouse, Sheriff's House, and Jail, located at 215 First Avenue South in Long Prairie, Todd County in the U.S. state of Minnesota is an avant garde Italian Renaissance buff-colored brick structure, built on a prominent knoll. It was designed by the Minneapolis architecture firm of Kees and Fisk, and built by John Aiton of Glenwood, for $20,000. The jail cells were provided by J.P. Pauley and Bros of St Louis. The building is surrounded by a fieldstone retaining wall and topped with a cupola. The courthouse was vacated in 2006. It was on the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota's 2010 list of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places. Long Prairie residents voted on whether to renovate or demolish the building on Election Day, November 2, 2010.
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“You don’t have power if you surrender all your principles—you have office.”
—Ron Todd (b. 1927)
“I believe the citizens of Marion County and the United States want to have judges who have feelings and who are human beings.”
—Paula Lopossa, U.S. judge. As quoted in the New York Times, p. B9 (May 21, 1993)
“The man’s an M.D., like you. He’s entitled to his opinion. Or do you want me to charge him with confusing a country doctor?”
—Robert M. Fresco. Jack Arnold. Sheriff Jack Andrews (Nestor Paiva)
“To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one’s way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.”
—John Florio (c. 1553–1625)