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Drew County Courthouse

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1932, H. Ray Burks. 210 S. Main St.
  • (Photograph by Ruth Hawkins)

This striking three-and-a-half-story flat-roofed building, sheathed with smoothly cut limestone, is the fourth courthouse to serve Drew County. The previous ones, built in 1851, 1856, and 1870, all occupied a site on the small public square. This much larger edifice is located two blocks south of the square on a much bigger site and exhibits a late, rather stark and minimally ornamented, classical style. Six monumental, engaged Ionic columns define the facade. The end windows are framed by two-story-high projecting surrounds that finish with a simple cornice upon which urns flank a cartouche. The little-altered interior features a prominent staircase with a wrought-iron balustrade in curvilinear patterns. The old courthouse square has been landscaped in a formal design with a fountain at the center.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors
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What's Nearby

Drew County Abstract and Title Co. (St. Mary’s Episcopal Church)
Old U.S. Post Office
Drew County Historical Museum (Pattie and Garvin Cavaness House)
North Main Street Historic District
Sylvester C. Hotchkiss House

Citation

Cyrus A. Sutherland with Gregory Herman, Claudia Shannon, Jean Sizemore Jeannie M. Whayne and Contributors, "Drew County Courthouse", [Monticello, Arkansas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AR-01-DR1.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Arkansas

Buildings of Arkansas, Cyrus A. Sutherland and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, 211-211.

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