| Pierce City Fire Station, Courthouse and Jail | |
| Coordinates: | 36.9456°N -94.0031°W |
| Architecture: | Italianate |
| Added: | August 28, 1998 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Refnum: | 98001108 |
Pierce City Fire Station, Courthouse and Jail is a historic multipurpose fire station, courthouse, and jail building located at Pierce City, Lawrence County, Missouri. It was built in 1886, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick building. It measures 25 feet by 75 feet. It features a distinctive square, hipped roof bell tower and tall vertically oriented windows topped by rectangular topped hoods. The building was the focal point of a race riot August 18–20, 1901, which received national attention and, in part, inspired Mark Twains essay "The United States of Lyncherdom".[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.