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ALCORN COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1918, N. W. Overstreet. 609 E. Waldron St.

In 1870, the state legislature formed Alcorn County from a portion of Tishomingo County and made Corinth its county seat. A courthouse erected in 1880 burned in 1918 and was replaced by this brick and terra-cotta building. Executed only eight years after architect N. W. Overstreet graduated from the University of Illinois, where the Prairie Style was well known, it is comparable to Overstreet’s courthouse in Pontotoc (1915), as both display Prairie Style horizontality, especially at the attic levels, which feature squat piers. The courthouse is entered through an imposing row of six columns in antis, with idiosyncratic capitals, flanked by abutments displaying clock faces.

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, "ALCORN COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Corinth, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NE5.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 162-163.

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