The Douglas County Courthouse in

Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas River, Kansas and Waka ...

is a three-and-a-half-story stone building erected in 1903. with It was designed by noted 19th-century architect

John G. Haskell John Gideon Haskell (February 5, 1832 – November 25, 1907) was an architect who designed portions of the Kansas State Capitol and other public buildings in the state. Haskell was born in Milton, Vermont. His father moved to Lawrence, Kansas i ...

in association with another architect, Frederick C. Gunn. It is a

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...

work. Its "dominant feature" is a six-story-tall square clock tower, with four minarets and a pyramidal roof topped by a metal

finial A finial (from '' la, finis'', end) or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature. In architecture, it is a small decorative device, employed to emphasize the Apex (geometry), apex of a d ...

. There is also a smaller octagonal stair tower with an eight-sided roof, topped by another finial. Windows in the stair tower alternate on the five visible sides of the tower.

References

External links

Douglas County Facilities page
Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas Romanesque Revival architecture in Kansas Government buildings completed in 1903 National Register of Historic Places in Douglas County, Kansas Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Kansas County courthouses in Kansas Lawrence, Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub