Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District

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Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District
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Location366 N. Broadway Ave.,
Booneville, Arkansas
Coordinates 35°8′28″N93°55′17″W / 35.14111°N 93.92139°W / 35.14111; -93.92139
Arealess than one acre
Built1928 (1928)
Built byJ. Kyle Fraser
Architect Haralson & Nelson
Architectural styleItalian Renaissance
NRHP reference No. 97000207 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 8, 1997

The Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District is a historic courthouse in Booneville, Arkansas, one of two county seats of Logan County. It is a three-story masonry building, built out of buff brick with limestone trim. It is stylistically in a restrained version of Italian Renaissance styling, with arched windows on the second level separated by pilasters with limestone capitals and bases. It is the second courthouse for the southern district of Logan County, built on the site of the first. [2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-25.