Area less than one acre Built by E. L. Koonce Opened 1903 Architect Frank W. Gibb | Built 1903 (1903) NRHP Reference # 76000389 Added to NRHP 12 December 1976 | |
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Location Courthouse Square, Warren, Arkansas Part of Warren Commercial Historic District (#16000433) Similar Yell County Courthouse, Joseph Taylor Robinson, Phillips County Courthouse, Dallas County Courthouse | ||
Bradley County Courthouse is a courthouse in Warren, Arkansas, United States, the county seat of Bradley County, built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The courthouse was built using two colors of brick and features a 2½ story clock tower.
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History
Bradley County was established in 1840 from Union County and was named for Hugh Bradley. Eventually Bradley County was fragmented into five more counties. Pennington Settlement, later renamed Warren, became the county seat around 1840. Two courthouses, a log cabin and later a brick and stucco building, were used for county business until the building of the current structure in 1903.
Architecture
The Bradley County Courthouse has a two-tone brick exterior with quoin arched windows as well as gauged voussoirs and dentils along the cornices. A tower in one corner of the structure has clocks facing all four directions, an arched cupola, and a hexagonal shaped roof. Also included on the National Register of Historic Places is a one story brick building built in 1890. Originally the county clerk's office, the building now serves as a library.