The Franklin County Courthouse, located at 39 W. Oneida St. in Preston in

Franklin County, Idaho Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 Census the county had a population of 14,194. The county seat and largest city is Preston. The county was established in 1913 and named after Franklin D. Richards, ...

, was built in 1939. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1987. It is

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

in style, principally designed by Salt Lake City architect Hyrum C. Pope. It is "tall, massive, and monumental" in its village setting. With . Hyrum Pope died unexpectedly of a heart attack while inspecting the construction of the building; With Note this source miss-states the year of Pope's death, which was in 1939. W.F. Thomas of Pope's firm, Pope & Burton, completed the supervision of the construction.

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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho Art Deco architecture in Idaho Government buildings completed in 1939 Franklin County, Idaho {{Idaho-NRHP-stub