Desha County Courthouse | |
Location: | Robert S. Moore Ave., Arkansas City, Arkansas |
Coordinates: | 33.6092°N -91.2022°W |
Architect: | Harding, Rome |
Architecture: | Romanesque Revival |
Added: | July 12, 1976 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 76000403 |
The Desha County Courthouse, on Robert S. Moore Avenue in Arkansas City, Arkansas, is the county seat of Desha County. The -story Romanesque Revival brick building was built in 1900 to a design by Little Rock architect Rome Harding. Its most distinctive feature is its four-story square tower, which features doubled rectangular windows on the first level, a round-arch window on the second, an open round arch on the third, and clock faces on the fourth level. The tower is topped by a pyramidal roof with finial.[1]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.