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PERRY COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1904, W. S. Hull; 1992 repairs and annex, Albert and Lewis. 101 S. Main Ave.

In 1903, Perry County moved its seat of government from Augusta, located on the Leaf River, about two miles south to New Augusta, to be near the newly completed Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad depot. Hattiesburg architect Robert E. Lee supervised the new courthouse’s construction for Hull, who was based in Jackson. The design employs several motifs familiar in Hull’s early-twentieth-century courthouses, most obviously the pedimented portico raised on an arcaded base. An arson fire in February 1990 damaged the roof and second-floor courtroom. Albert and Lewis of Hattiesburg oversaw repairs and designed the Postmodern classical two-story annex recessed to the south of the courthouse. The two-story brick jail (1904) at the rear has been adapted as a local historical museum.

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, "PERRY COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [New Augusta, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW24.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 314-314.

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