Independence County Courthouse marker - Batesville, Ar.
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N 35° 46.218 W 091° 39.195
15S E 621733 N 3959308
This two-story masonry building is located at 192 E Main Street in Batesville, Ar.
Waymark Code: WMNRBR
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2015
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This metal plaque is located on the western entrance of the Independence County Courthouse. The text of the plaque reads:
INDEPENDENCE COUNTY
COURTHOUSE
This site has been the location of three Independence
County courthouses. The first, built in 1857, was
destroyed by fire in the 1880's and replaced by a
Gothic style structure. Batesville's finest example of
Art Deco style building construction, this courthouse
was constructed in 1940 by Works Progress
Administration and has a Batesville marble exterior.
It continues to serve the citizens of Independence
County as the seat of government.
Date of Construction: 1940
A two-story, stone masonry institutional building with a raised basement and a Batesville marble exterior. It features a symmetrical, roughly "H"-shaped plan. The central, taller section of the building is five bays in length along the northern or Main Street elevation and accessed via a central, double-leaf entry. The lower, flanking sections are a single bay across. The eastern and western are each five bays in length. The building is fenestrated throughout with metal casement and awning windows, virtually all of which are original. It rests upon a concrete foundation and is covered with a flat roof.
The Independence County Courthouse was designed by the Little Rock architectural firm of Wittenberg and Deloney in 1940 to replace the High Victorian Gothic courthouse that had stood on the site since the 1880's but which burned in 1939 (this had been the site of the county courthouse since 1857). It was designed in the Art Deco style and remains Batesville's finest example of this style. Its symmetrical plan and elevations, coupled with the emphasis upon large areas of uninterrupted wall surface, and the spare and symmetrically-applied geometric, stylized Classical ornament render it a pure Art Deco design. The only landscape feature of note is the 1907 stone Confederate monument which was moved to this location in 1940.
- National Register Application
History of Marker: See long description - history of the Courthouses of Independence County, Arkansas.
Link to Marker: Not listed
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