Adair County Courthouse (Missouri)

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Adair County Courthouse

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Adair County Courthouse, October 2014
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Location Washington St., Kirksville, Missouri
Coordinates 40°11′42″N92°35′1″W / 40.19500°N 92.58361°W / 40.19500; -92.58361 Coordinates: 40°11′42″N92°35′1″W / 40.19500°N 92.58361°W / 40.19500; -92.58361
Area 1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built 1898 (1898)
Architect Kirsch & Company; Kirsch, Robert G.
Architectural style Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference # 78001636 [1]
Added to NRHP August 11, 1978

Adair County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri. It was built in 1898, and is a three-story, Richardsonian Romanesque style rectangular building. It is constructed of rusticated stone, and has a medium composition hipped roof. It has four gables, four hipped dormers, and features four corner pavilions with pyramidal roofs. It features large Roman entrance arches supported by pairs of short, thick colonnettes of polished granite. [2]

Courthouse building which is home to a court

A courthouse is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-speaking countries, buildings which house courts of law are simply called "courts" or "court buildings". In most of Continental Europe and former non-English-speaking European colonies, the equivalent term is a palace of justice.

Kirksville, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Kirksville is a city in and the county seat of Adair County, Missouri, United States. Located in the Benton Township, its population was 17,505 at the 2010 census. Kirksville is home to two colleges: Truman State University and A.T. Still University.

Adair County, Missouri County in the United States

Adair County is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 25,607. Its county seat is Kirksville. The county was organized January 29, 1841, and named for Governor John Adair of Kentucky.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [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. David D. March (October 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Adair County Courthouse" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.