Odd inheritance: 1889 landmark courthouse with clock tower

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

LITCHFIELD, Conn. -- George Beckwith got the surprising phone call a few months ago, informing him he soon would be an owner of a 19th-century courthouse in Connecticut, nearly 1,400 miles from his home in Missouri.

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