{"id":94766,"date":"2025-08-19T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94766\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:57:07","slug":"indiana-included-on-list-of-ugliest-buildings-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94766\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana included on list of ‘ugliest’ buildings in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See inside construction of Signia Hotel in Downtown Indianapolis<\/p>\n

IndyStar got an inside look at the work in progress on the newest hotel that is rising above the Indy skyline.<\/p>\n

Is the United States known for its ornate or stunning architecture? Not always. In some cases, its buildings are practical, as opposed to pretty.<\/p>\n

Not all architecture, however, is in the same class, in fact some of it could be considered just plain “ugly.”<\/p>\n

More than 3,000 people were asked to vote on the 100 ugliest public buildings in the U.S. in a new list put out by the New Jersey Real Estate Network<\/a>. Two Indiana cities have buildings that made the cut.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to know.<\/p>\n

‘Ugliest buildings’ in America includes South Bend’s St. Joseph County-City Building<\/p>\n

At spot No. 63, the St. Joseph County-City Building, located in South Bend<\/a>, made the ugliest public buildings list.<\/p>\n

The 14-story St. Joseph County-City Building was built in 1967 to replace the City Hall that would be demolished in 1970.<\/p>\n

The South Bend Tribune reported <\/a>in July 2025 that county officials are considering selling the building and relocating the services currently housed there due to costly repairs and upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From South Bend: Five things to know about County-City Building as officials decide what to do with it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Evansville Civic Center Complex makes list of America’s ‘ugliest’ buildings<\/p>\n

The Evansville Civic Center Complex<\/a> took spot No. 76 on the ugliest public building list.<\/p>\n

The Civic Center Complex opened in 1969 and was originally home to city and county government officials, agencies, courts, school administration\u00a0and a jail, according to previous reporting from the Courier & Press.<\/a><\/p>\n

The complex was completed after six years of planning and cost $27 million (estimated to be over $237 million in currency today).<\/p>\n

What are the ugliest buildings in the U.S.?<\/p>\n

According to the survey, the top five ugliest buildings in the U.S. are:<\/p>\n

City of Flint Municipal Center<\/a> located in Flint, MichiganFresno County Superior Court<\/a>, located in Fresno, CaliforniaBuffalo City Court<\/a>, located in Buffalo, New YorkJackson County Courts Building<\/a>, located in Pascagoula, MississippiPhiladelphia Municipal Services Building<\/a>, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

To view all the public buildings that made the list, visit newjerseyrealestatenetwork.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Katie Wiseman<\/a>\u00a0covers trending news for IndyStar and Midwest Connect. Contact her at klwiseman@gannett.com. Follow her on Bluesky\u00a0@katiewiseman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See inside construction of Signia Hotel in Downtown Indianapolis IndyStar got an inside look at the work in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[13716,23,230,228,14247,14955,13541,12514,22189,13715,88,15874,2420,20568,20575,23665,417,64217,2652,13543,3729,13723,20576,13555,8373,13545,13558,13547,3,15360,52507,13470,13560,13690,20569,23767,64216,13546,2427,13542,13556,13692,21,19,22,20,25,24,404,3447],"class_list":["post-94766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-affiliate","tag-america","tag-architecture","tag-arts","tag-bend","tag-buildings","tag-connect","tag-construction","tag-construction-u0026-maintenance","tag-content","tag-entertainment","tag-galleries","tag-government","tag-historical","tag-historical-sites-u0026-buildings","tag-image","tag-in","tag-in-content-sharing","tag-indiana","tag-know","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-local-affiliate-travel","tag-local-connect","tag-maintenance","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-online","tag-online-image-galleries","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sharing","tag-sites","tag-south","tag-south-bend","tag-story","tag-travel","tag-ttp","tag-ttp-what-we-know","tag-u0026","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-we","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}