Cass County Courthouse - Harrisonville, Missouri - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

100 W. Wall Street
(1897)
The Cass County Courthouse is a three-story, Italian Renaissance style with Italian Villa elements, buff brick county courthouse. The building rests on a cut stone foundation and has a hipped roof. The first story is rusticated in appearance. The main entrance has modern aluminium doors and is located on the south facade. The entrance is covered by a flat roof portico with a box cornice and a frieze with the words "A Public Office is A Public Trust" supported by six Ionic columns.

The main entrance, a modern double, single panel aluminum frame door with transom, is located on the south facade. The entrance is covered by a flat roof portico with box cornice and a frieze is supported by six Ionic columns and two brick piers with Corinthian capitals. "A Public Office Is A Public Trust" is on the frieze. The entrance is located on the first story and is approached by a series of stone steps. To the west of the entrance is a memorial stone. Directly above the portico, in the central bay of the second story, are tripartite windows with transoms. A stone balustrade is located in front of these windows. The hood mold for the tripartite windows is a balustraded cornice with stone consoles.

Fenestration on all four facades are modern 1/1 light, doublehung, aluminum sash windows in a rectangular frame. The first story windows have brick flat arched lintels comprised of radiating voussoirs and stone sill coursing. On the first story of the central bay of the east and west facades are paired windows with transom. These windows are placed in brick surrounds with a a cornice. Directly above the cornice is a balustrade with decorative swags The second story windows contain flat brick lintels, drip molds and stone lug sills. On the west facade of the second story are two oeil-de boeuf windows flanking the central window. These round windows have quoin surrounds and keystone. The third story windows are paired windows separated by Ionic columns and framed by Ionic pilasters. Rounded arched covered transoms are above the windows. The transoms are placed within rounded brick arches with radiating brick voussoirs and keystone. Cut stone sill coursing runs below the windows. Bracketed cornice with egg and dart molding support the hipped roof.