The Drew County Courthouse is located at 210 South Main Street in
Monticello, Arkansas
Monticello ( ) is a college town in, and the county seat of, Drew County, Arkansas. As of 2023, it had an estimated population of 8,175. Founded in 1849 in the Arkansas Timberlands near the Arkansas Delta region, the city has long been a comm ...
. The -story Classical Moderne building was designed by Arkansas architect
H. Ray Burks and built in 1932. It is
Drew County's fourth courthouse; the first two were wood-frame buildings dating to the 1850s, the third a brick structure built 1870–71. It is an L-shaped building, built of limestone blocks and topped by a flat tar roof. It consists of a central block, five bays wide, and symmetrical flanking wings a single bay in width. The central section has a portico of six Ionic columns, which rise the full three and one half stories, and are topped by a square pediment which reads "Drew County Courthouse" flanked by the date of construction.
The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1997.
Gallery
File:Drew County Courthouse 002.jpg, Bell on courthouse grounds
File:Drew County Courthouse 001.jpg, War memorial
File:Drew County Courthouse 005.jpg, Memorial interior
File:Drew County Arkansas Courthouse.jpg, 2021 photo of Drew County Arkansas Courthouse from S Main St
File:Drew County Arkansas Courthouse 2023.jpg, Drew County Arkansas Courthouse was taken on Friday, September 22, 2023 at 12:03 PM on S Main St in Monticello Arkansas
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Drew County, Arkansas
References
Monticello, Arkansas
Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Art Deco architecture in Arkansas
Government buildings completed in 1932
Buildings and structures in Drew County, Arkansas
County courthouses in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Drew County, Arkansas
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