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 Independence County Courthouse Time Capsule - Batesville, Ar. Posted by:  iconions
N 35° 46.217 W 091° 39.204
15S E 621720 N 3959306
This light grey granite marker is located on the northwestern lawn of the Independence County Courthouse - 192 E Main Street in Batesville, Ar.
Waymark Code: WMNRC2
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2015
Views: 2
This time capsule was placed by Independence County Court and authorized by County Judge David W. Wyatt. The Time Capsule celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Courthouse in August of 1990, and will be opened in celebration of the 100th anniversary in August of 2040. The text of the marker reads:
TIME CAPSULE
INDEPENDENCE COUNTY
COURTHOUSE
PLACED AUG. 1990 - 50TH YEAR
TO OPEN AUG. 2040 - 100TH YEAR
COUNTY JUDGE DAVID W. WYATT
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.
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