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Linn County Courthouse

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1925–1926, Joseph W. Royer. South side of 3rd Ave., Municipal Island
  • (Photograph by Catherine Boland Erkkila)

Like its companion piece, the Veterans' Memorial and City Hall, the county courthouse was to have a low tower rising out of a classical temple base. The elimination of the tower in the final design produced an adequate Beaux-Arts background building, but not one which strongly enhances the uniqueness of its site on Municipal Island. The recent “modernist” five-story addition to the rear should, if possible, be ignored.

Writing Credits

Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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What's Nearby

The Civic Center
Peoples Savings Bank
Veterans' Memorial and City Hall
Central Fire Station (now Science Station Museum)
United States Post Office, Federal Building, Courthouse

Citation

David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "Linn County Courthouse", [Cedar Rapids, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-CE069.2.

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