Butler County Courthouse (Missouri)

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Butler County Courthouse

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Butler County Courthouse, October 2014
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Location Public Sq., Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Coordinates 36°45′23″N90°23′32″W / 36.75639°N 90.39222°W / 36.75639; -90.39222 Coordinates: 36°45′23″N90°23′32″W / 36.75639°N 90.39222°W / 36.75639; -90.39222
Area less than one acre
Built 1928 (1928)
Built by Gassman Construction Co.
Architect N.S. Spencer and Son
Architectural style Classical Revival
MPS Poplar Bluff MPS
NRHP reference # 94001400 [1]
Added to NRHP December 1, 1994

Butler County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1928, and is a three-story, Classical Revival style brick building of cast concrete construction. Each side is nine bays wide, with the central five bays having two-story engaged Doric order columns and pilasters on the top two floors. [2] :5

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.

Poplar Bluff, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Poplar Bluff is a small city in Butler County in Southeast Missouri in the United States. It is the county seat of Butler County and is known as "The Gateway to the Ozarks" among other names. The population was 17,023 at the 2010 census.

Butler County, Missouri County in the United States

Butler County is a county located in the southeast Ozark Foothills Region in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 Census, the county's population was 42,794. The largest city and county seat is Poplar Bluff. The county was officially organized from Wayne County on February 27, 1849, and is named after former U.S. Representative William O. Butler (D-Kentucky), who was also an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States. The first meeting in the Butler County Courthouse was held on June 18, 1849.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [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. Philip Thomason (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Butler County Courthouse" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.