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HUMPHREYS COUNTY COURTHOUSE AND JAIL

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1921–1922, Kramer and Lindsley. 102 Castleman St.

C. H. Lindsley designed this yellow brick, concrete-framed courthouse set on a raised limestone base. The building asserts its authority with a grand central stair that ascends to three pedimented entrances set within a wide Ionic colonnade. An entablature wraps three sides of the building, and antefixes line the parapet. The first-floor lobby maintains the exterior’s desire for grandeur, with a Tuscan columnar screen, terrazzo floors, coffered ceilings, bronze chandeliers, and a marble wainscot. A jail from the same building project stands abandoned to the rear.

Nearby at 202 Castleman, the First Methodist Church (1927), a later design by Lindsley, is also classical in style, with a pedimented Ionic portico.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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OLD COCA-COLA BOTTLING PLANT
WISTER GARDENS

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "HUMPHREYS COUNTY COURTHOUSE AND JAIL", [Belzoni, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR67.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 138-139.

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