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LAWRENCE COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1912, R. H. Hunt; 1924 altered, Eugene McCormick. 517 E. Broad St.

Lawrence County was established in 1814 with Monticello as its seat. The three-story red brick courthouse is the fourth to occupy this irregular site, one of the state’s oldest court squares after Woodville’s (ND1). It faces Broad Street, the primary commercial thoroughfare, and has its back to the Pearl River, once the town’s lifeblood. McCormick of Brookhaven removed the leaking domed clock tower in 1924, shifting the focus to Hunt’s severe four-columned classical portico by adding a balustrade, dentils, and modillions. Between 1966 and 1970 the second-floor courtroom was remodeled and a one-story rear annex added. The original cross-hall plan and two iron staircases remain.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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GOVERNOR LONGINO HOUSE MUSEUM
LAWRENCE COUNTY CIVIC CENTER (MONTICELLO CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL)

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "LAWRENCE COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Monticello, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW3.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 303-303.

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