Dyer County Courthouse - Dyersburg Courthouse Square Historic District - Dyersburg, TN
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N 36° 01.935 W 089° 23.165
16S E 285016 N 3990159
This is building number 1 on the NRHP list and map.
Waymark Code: WMXFC6
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 01/06/2018
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County of building: Dyer County
Location of building: Main St & Court St., Dyersburg
Built: 1911
Architect: Asa Biggs
"1. Dyer County Courthouse. 1911. Three-story brick Classical
Revival influenced structure designed by Asa Biggs.
Five-bay central block with one-bay wing on east and west sides. North and south facades are colonnaded with four
plain columns with Ionic capitals. Windows are double-paned metal with transoms. Brick is in common bond pattern
with decorative courses around each window and door. White belt course from roofline of building, topped with brick
drum and round white dome with clock face in each direction. Cornices of the building feature three diamond-shaped
white stones at the top of corner pilasters and dentils in the cornice line. (C)" ~ NRHP Nomination Form
"Here, around the courthouse and in the square, the
county's, major political rallies have been held for well over a century.
Buildings such as the Classical Revival Dyer County Courthouse (#1) and 119 S. Mill Avenue (#40), The City Hall building (#50) have not only served as
Dyer County's centers for activity for government and politics throughout
most of the twentieth century; their classical designs also are among the
county's significant expressions of the Classical Revival architectural
movement, which so shaped American architecture, and has a particularly
strong regional influence in west Tennessee, during the first third of the
century." ~ NRHP Nomination Form