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MONROE COUNTY CHANCERY BUILDING (U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE)

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1885–1887, Mifflin E. Bell, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury; 1931–1932 addition, James A. Wetmore, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 201 W. Commerce St.

The Richardsonian Romanesque style of this compact, three-story structure built to serve a new judicial district is uncommon in Mississippi but was common for federal buildings of the period (see YB4). Its red brick walls with stone dressings feature repetitive, round-arched windows and three round-arched openings with stunted columns carrying foliated capitals form the principal entrance, while corbeled brick supports an entablature at the side entrance. The gables above are inlaid with terra-cotta tiles. The red brick and round-arched windows are repeated in the two-story rear addition.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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ABERDEEN CITY HALL
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
OLD HOMESTEAD
ADAMS-FRENCH HOUSE
MONROE COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MONROE COUNTY CHANCERY BUILDING (U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE)", [Aberdeen, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR6.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 176-176.

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