A distinctive copper Baroque dome, with a four-faced clock, and an open lantern crowns this Beaux-Arts classical courthouse, which responds to its irregularly shaped square with pedimented distyle-in-antis porticos on all four sides. Oblique projecting pavilions at the corners add complexity to the cross plan. The courtroom, remodeled in the 1970s, is on the second floor. A flat-roofed, one-story annex added in 1945–1946 obscures the south entrance. Weathers’s similar Lamar County Courthouse of 1905 in Purvis has undergone many more changes.
On the square’s south side, the Moderne two-story monolithic concrete jail (1938–1939), with incised horizontal ribbing, was designed by J. Howard Ryan and built with WPA labor; the jail received recognition in Architectural Concrete in 1940.