The Cassia County Courthouse, located at Fifteenth Street and Overland Avenue in Burley, is the

county courthouse A courthouse or court house is a structure which houses judicial functions for a governmental entity such as a state, region, province, county, prefecture, regency, or similar governmental unit. A courthouse is home to one or more courtrooms, ...

serving

Cassia County Cassia County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 Census the county had a population of 24,655. The county seat and largest city is Burley. Cassia County is included in the Burley, ID Micropolitan Statistical Area. History ...

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History

Built in 1939, the courthouse was the third space used by county government and the county's first large, independent courthouse. The

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to car ...

funded the building, and Twin Falls architect

Burton E. Morse Burton E. Morse (April 19, 1867 – August 6, 1941), was an American architect based in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States. Several of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). He was born April 19, 1867, in Farming ...

provided its

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...

design. The courthouse was added to the

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on September 27, 1987.

Design

The brick building's design consists of a three-story tower above the central entrance and two-story wings on either side. Brick

pilaster In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an ext ...

s topped with

terra cotta Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta (; ; ), is a clay-based Vitrification#Ceramics, non-vitreous ceramicOED, "Terracotta""Terracotta" MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures. It is therefore a term used ...

divide the building into entrance and window

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...

s. Terra cotta panels surrounded by ornamental brickwork decorate the entrance bay, and a flat terra cotta

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runs along the roof line. (Also availabl
here
from the Idaho State Historical Society.) With

References

Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho County courthouses in Idaho Buildings and structures in Cassia County, Idaho Art Deco architecture in Idaho National Register of Historic Places in Cassia County, Idaho Burley, Idaho {{CassiaCountyID-NRHP-stub

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