the whole place might be creepy if the a third of a block of the two story red brick buildings that were across the street behind the courthouse had n't been torn down and in their place a modern ( for the time , i was guessing at least two decades ago ) , glass fronted , somewhat glitzy ( now tarnished with age , it was dated and not in a good way , it would need at least another decade or two to come back into retro style ) restaurant .