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Jefferson Davis County Courthouse

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
94001308

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Built
  
1907 (1907)

Opened
  
1907

Added to NRHP
  
10 November 1994

Jefferson Davis County Courthouse

Location
  
Jct. of N. Columbia Ave. and Third St., Prentiss, Mississippi

Jefferson Davis County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse built in 1907 in Prentiss, Mississippi, the county seat of Jefferson Davis County. The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1994. It is located at the junction of North Columbia Avenue and 3rd Street.

The building is brick and was designed in a Neoclassical architecture style. A jail was added to its southwest corner in 1985. It was designed by W.S. Hull of Jackson, Mississippi. He designed many other courthouses in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Until 1903, his county courthouse designs were Richardsonian Romanesque.

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Jefferson Davis County Courthouse Wikipedia