Remington Water Tower and Town Hall

The small town of Remington, Indiana, in Jasper County, has an outsized civic landmark at its center. The Remington Water Tower and Town Hall, built in eighteen ninety-seven, is an unusual civic landmark: a tall brick water tower topped by a wooden tank, standing beside a small brick building that may have served as the town hall. The design was a practical expression of civic pride common in Midwestern towns of the Gilded Age, when communities competed to build the most impressive public works their tax base could support. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and still stands as the visual anchor of a town of roughly one thousand two hundred people, a reminder that small places once built for permanence.