Jersey County Courthouse - Jerseyville, IL - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of courthouse: Jersey County
Location of courthouse: Washington St. & Pearl St., Jerseyville
Date built: 1894
Architect: Henry Elliott
Contractor: Frederick W. Menke

"The courthouse is a two-story Romanesque Revival building, augmented by a raised basement, a third story, lit by small windows just below the roofline, a dormered attic space, and a four-storied tiered tower. The building is 124½ feet high, 90 feet lone, and 71 feet wide. The cross-plan building is ruffed faced with buff-colored Grafton limestone and beige Bedford stone serves as contrasting trim. The front facade consists of two-story terminal towers and a central gabled section fronted by a one-storied porch with access to the raised first floor. The nearly-identically fenestrated side facades articulate the crossplan with projecting central, gabled pavilions. The rear facade is a simple three-bay block with a central gable in the roofline. The tower rises directly behind the front facade block, to the south of the building's center. It is supported by a square two-story base with projecting rectangular bays at the steeply-pi hip roofline. The tower itself is octagonal and the faceted dome with pinnacled gables rests on a round arch arcaded base. The square base and tower are presently sheathed in a silver-grey metal covering." ~ NRHP Nomination Form