Johnson County Courthouse - Warrensburg, Missouri - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

Located in downtown Warrensburg, the 1896 Johnson County Courthouse is a 2 1/2-story, plus basement, cross-gabled building with a square tower rising from a central base. The building is constructed primarily of roughfaced, brown-tinged gray sandstone in the massive, multiple-arched Richardsonian Romanesque style. The plan is rectangular with slightly projecting corners and central salients. A metal goddess statue atop the central tower's octagonal, ogee-shaped dome, plus four corner towers or pavilions with domes and finials are major contributors to a lively roofline. Deeply recessed primary entrances, reached by stone steps in the east, west and south elevations access the broad intersecting corridors of the first floor; the north entrance has been closed with a wood partition to provide additional office space. Much of the original interior is intact, including tall panel doors and ornate trim. Despite various alterations including sandblasting nearly 30 years ago, sufficient structural and historical integrity has been preserved. Sandblasting accelerated the effects of weathering but is otherwise not apparent today; the essential features of design and the other elements of integrity are sufficient that the.Johnson County Courthouse retains its eligibility. The building is in the middle of the courthouse square in Warrensburg's historic trade center, within the boundary are two noncontributing, nondisruptive objects: a bronze statue of Old Drum, the slain farmer's dog eulogized at a local trial in 1870, and a war memorial made of gray granite.