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The Historic Courthouse is still a county-office landmark

Greene County office pages still point residents to the Historic Courthouse on Boonville, so the courthouse remains practical civic geography.

The Historic Courthouse at 940 N. Boonville is still working civic geography in Springfield. It is not only a handsome old building on the county campus. Voters and absentee-ballot users working through the County Clerk still get sent to that Boonville landmark.

That helps explain why a downtown county errand can feel confusing. Greene County has multiple government buildings, and the right door depends on the job. A court matter, assessor question, collector payment, recorder document, or elections errand may not share an entrance just because all of them sound like “county business.”

Use the office name first and the building second. If the errand is elections or County Clerk business, the Historic Courthouse may be the right landmark. If it is courts or another county office, the destination may be the Judicial Courts Facility or a different building on the campus.

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