sentences:  The 1937 building was constructed by the Jacobson Brothers of Chicago; the architects were Louis R. Johnson and Walter Scholar of Lafayette.The courthouse walls display murals painted by Eugene Francis Savage and others from 1937 to 1940, covering of wall space and depicting the settlement of western Indiana.Digging on the Wabash and Erie Canal began in 1832 and worked southwest; it reached Lafayette by 1842.