sentences:  He had taken over the Indiana Statehouse project when architect Edwin May died in 1880; five years after the completion of that project in 1888, Scherrer began work on the Tipton building, which was built of sandstone in a Romanesque style with a clock tower of 206 feet elevation including the flagstaff on top.It was built 1893-94 by Pierce and Morgan of Indianapolis at a cost of $170,988.It is one of several Romanesque courthouses dating from the 1890s that are still in use.