Mary Alice Baxter, "Monroe County Poor House Reminder of a Bygone Age," Indiana Daily Student, September 25, 1969, Reel 12, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Abstracted by below by Randi Richardson. The Monroe County Poor Farm was constructed in 1893 but has long since been abandoned. "Strewn throughout the 60-odd rooms of the decaying house are constant reminders of another day, another people." Entire families previously occupied the cramped, dingy rooms now stripped of "gaily-printed wallpaper, the county's one concession to beauty in their home for the poor." Because the crumbling structure now presents a danger to trespassers, the house will be razed in October and, with it, any remembrances of an age also past.