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LEE COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1904, P. H. Weathers. 201 W. Jefferson St.

Tupelo is the largest town in Mississippi with a courthouse square. The courthouse dome, with its alternating pedimented windows and paired columns carrying entablatures, is based on seventeenth-century French Baroque models and is visible from afar; but the square is not centrally located in the downtown. The first of three Mississippi courthouses designed by Jackson-based Weathers, the Beaux-Arts classical building has four porticos with Ionic columns in antis, walls laid up in coursed ashlar limestone, a modillioned and dentiled entablature, front and rear pediments, and a balustraded parapet. The windows are replacements.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "LEE COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Tupelo, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NE16.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 167-167.

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