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The Kingman County Courthouse, located at 130 Spruce Street in Kingman, Kansas, is an historic 3-story redbrick courthouse building set on a ground-floor basement of rough-faced white limestone. The stairway and entrance portico leading to the main entrance are of the same limestone. Its roof is basically hip roof, hipped with gables in the middle of each side, pyramids on each corner and an octagonal shaped cupola rising from the center. Built in 1907-08 for Kingman County, Kansas, Kingman County, it is one of 15 courthouses (13 in Kansas and one each in Illinois and Oklahoma) designed by architect George P. Washburn of Ottawa, Kansas. His design for this building has been called a mixture of Late Victorian, Romanesque Revival architecture, Romanesque, Free Classical and Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Queen Anne architectural styles. Noted Kansans biography of George P. Washburn
/ref> On September 11, 1985, the Kingman County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Image:Kingman County Kansas Courthouse Front Detail 2009.jpg, Front Detail Image:Kingman County Kansas Courthouse Front 2009.jpg, Front of the courthouse


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Buildings and structures in Kingman County, Kansas County courthouses in Kansas Government buildings completed in 1908 Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Kingman County, Kansas 1908 establishments in Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub