The courthouse has a Charles Eitzen funding story

Gasconade County’s courthouse is more than a place to find an office address. The county’s courthouse page says the present courthouse was dedicated on July 18, 1898, and that Charles D. Eitzen willed money to Gasconade County for construction and furnishing of a new courthouse.

The same page says the present structure is the second courthouse building on the same site and describes later damage from a 1905 fire and repairs completed that year.

For a resident, visitor, or local-history reader, the useful point is simple: Hermann’s courthouse is a civic landmark with a documented local funding story. When you see county offices clustered at 119 East First Street, that building is part of how Gasconade County’s public business became anchored in Hermann.