Scott County Courthouse | |
Coordinates: | 37.0967°N -89.5639°W |
Architect: | Hohenschild, H.H. |
Builder: | McCarthy, J.W. |
Architecture: | Beaux Arts |
Added: | January 28, 2004 |
Refnum: | 03001505 |
Scott County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Benton, Scott County, Missouri. It was designed by architect Henry H. Hohenschild and built in 1912. It is a reinforced concrete Beaux Arts style building sheathed in brick. It has a "T"-plan consisting of a three-story, five-bay, central block with two-story wings. Three bays of the central block are recessed behind colossal Ionic order columns that support a dentiled entablature. It features terra cotta and cast stone ornamentation.[1] [2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.