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COVINGTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1907, W. S. Hull. 101 S. Dogwood Ave.

This two-story pink brick courthouse built when the county seat moved here from Williamsburg in 1906 combines classical symmetry with geometric forms in an almost Federal manner. A centered tetrastyle Ionic portico resting on a rusticated arcaded loggia dominates the five-part east facade and features three bulls-eye windows in the attic story. An oval drum at the core of the building holds the second floor’s oblong courtroom, a shape that Chris Meister in his biography of J. Riely Gordon believes Hull borrowed from Gordon’s earlier Copiah (SC3) and Wilkinson (ND1) courthouses. The town’s commercial corridor developed perpendicular to the railroad, precluding a traditional courthouse square. At the railroad, the board-and-batten Gulf and Ship Island Depot (c. 1900) with its bracketed eaves was renovated in 2009–2011 as a civic center by Belinda Stewart Architects.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "COVINGTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Collins, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW9.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 306-306.

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