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MONROE COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1857, J. A. Pate and J. B. Taylor, builders; 1901 north wing; 1941 south wing. 300 S. Locust St.

This courthouse was erected inside the block provided by Robert Gordon and his fellow speculators. While the site might have been prominent in the town they had in mind, it is out of the way today. The two-story, brick building is conventionally subdivided by giant-order Doric-like pilasters but is unusual for a Greek Revival courthouse in having no projecting porticos. It does have a wooden cupola with Ionic columns in antis, full entablature, and mansard roof, and the building’s windows have pedimented, cast-iron lintels with tendril motifs and acroteria.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

ABERDEEN CITY HALL
MONROE COUNTY CHANCERY BUILDING (U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE)
ADAMS-FRENCH HOUSE
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
OLD HOMESTEAD

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MONROE COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Aberdeen, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR3.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 175-175.

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