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TUNICA COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1922–1923, Frank P. Gates and Company; 1964 addition. 1300 School St.

Tunica became the county seat in 1889, and after the first courthouse burned in 1920, Gates designed this three-story classical building. A projecting central entrance bay creates a tripartite facade, with an E. Howard and Company clock and a red tile mansard roof. Ionic pilasters, modillions, egg-and-dart molding, triglyphs, and roundels stand out against the subtle texture of the variegated brown Flemish bond brick walls. First-floor offices surround a grand central lobby, while the courtroom takes up most of the second and third floors. A rear addition (1964) houses the chancery clerk’s office. Behind the courthouse stands the vacant red brick two-story jail (1894), distinguished by a Romanesque Revival corner tower, round-arched entrance, and corbeled cornice.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "TUNICA COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Tunica, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR45.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 125-125.

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