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DESOTO COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1940–1941, R. W. Naef. 2535 U.S.51 S

This bulky two-story red brick Colonial Revival courthouse features a pedimented portico on two sides. Inside, on the second-floor balcony, murals painted in 1903 by Chicago artist Newton A. Wells and relocated here in 1948 from the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis depict scenes from Hernando DeSoto’s explorations.

Nearby at Church and Losher streets, Hernando’s riveted, steel water tower was erected in 1925 by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company. Its vertical riser pipe has a fifty-thousand-gallon capacity and consists of lattice-girder legs, with angle and cable cross bracing, supporting a tank composed of a cylinder with conical cap and hemispherical base.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "DESOTO COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Hernando, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NC7.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 143-143.

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