Scott County Courthouse (Missouri)

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Scott County Courthouse
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Location 131 S. Winchester St., Benton, Missouri
Coordinates 37°5′48″N89°33′50″W / 37.09667°N 89.56389°W / 37.09667; -89.56389 Coordinates: 37°5′48″N89°33′50″W / 37.09667°N 89.56389°W / 37.09667; -89.56389
Area 1.1 acres (0.45 ha)
Built 1912 (1912)
Built by McCarthy, J.W.
Architect Hohenschild, H.H.
Architectural style Beaux Arts
NRHP reference # 03001505 [1]
Added to NRHP January 28, 2004

Scott County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Benton, Scott County, Missouri. It was designed by architect Henry H. Hohenschild and built in 1912. It is a reinforced concrete Beaux Arts style building sheathed in brick. It has a "T"-plan consisting of a three-story, five bay, central block with two-story wings. Three bays of the central block are recessed behind colossal Ionic order columns that support a dentiled entablature. It features terra cotta and cast stone ornamentation. [2] :5 [3]

Courthouse building which is home to a court

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Benton, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Benton is a city in Scott County, Missouri, United States. The population was 863 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Scott County.

Scott County, Missouri county in Missouri

Scott County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 39,191. Its county seat is Benton. The county was organized in 1821 and named for U.S. Representative John Scott, the first federal representative from Missouri.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. John Kendig & Tom Lett and Tiffany Patterson (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Scott County Courthouse" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 11 photographs from 2003)
  3. Earngey, Bill (1995). Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion. University of Missouri Press. p. 14.