Morehouse Parish Courthouse

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Morehouse Parish Courthouse
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Location100 East Madison Avenue, Bastrop, Louisiana
Coordinates 32°46′40″N91°54′50″W / 32.77778°N 91.91387°W / 32.77778; -91.91387
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built1914
Architect W.L. Stevens
Architectural style Beaux Arts
NRHP reference No. 02001622 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 2002

The Morehouse Parish Courthouse, at 100 East Madison Avenue in Bastrop in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, is a Beaux Arts-style building which was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 2002. [1]

It is a three-story monumental building on a half-story-high basement, with beige brick veneer walls and a four-stage dome. [2]

The building was expanded with small side wings in 1935 and expanded much further in 1966 with larger side wings that doubled the building's size, but the central block remains prominent. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Morehouse Parish Courthouse" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. 2002. Retrieved June 12, 2017. with five photos and a map