April 4, 2006: This view of the stately Hardin County Courthouse in Eldora now needs a notice at the top of the steps: Please use side door.
The Iowa Falls Times-Citizen (two paragraphs, anyway) and KLMJ/KQCR Radio report that starting last week, there is only one entrance to the 127-year-old courthouse. Everyone has to go to an east entrance that, as shown in this frame from Google Street View, didn’t exist five years ago. The T-C leaves open the possibility of a future metal detector.
As in all such cases, metaphors about architecture, government openness, and security are left as exercises for the reader.
UPDATE 1/13: Fixed/updated radio link.