Monday, November 16, 2009

Lauderdale County Courthouse

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES - 1979

500 Twenty-first Avenue, Meridian Mississippi
Built Circa 1905; extensively re-modeled in 1939.
Style: Art Deco
P.J. Krouse, Architect

The ten story, brick building has a flat roof of tar composition with cornice, entablature with frieze of Gothic arches, ground floor with five, round arch bays with fixed windows, central, double leaf, wood panel doors, cast iron canopy, base and first floor are stone, first floor with 6/6 double hung sash windows, stringcourse, second-eight floors with 6/6 double hung sash windows, decorative brick consoles over windows with terra cotta diamond motifs, top story with diamond pattern brickwork, three sets of triple 6/6 double hung sash windows with rounded arch, lintels and flanking four 6/6 double hung sash windows with segmented arch lintels.





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