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The Jasper County Courthouse is a 106-ft tall historic 
courthouse
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located at Carthage
Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classi ...
, Jasper County, Missouri
Jasper County is located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 122,761. Its county seat is Carthage, and its largest city is Joplin. The county was organized in 1841 and named for W ...
. It was built in 1894–1895. This highly photographed Richardsonian Romanesque
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edifice designed by architect Max A. Orlopp Jr. was constructed with local Carthage marble and has medieval castle
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features that include turret
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* Turret (architecture), a small tower that projects above the wall of a building
* Gun turret, a mechanism of a projectile-firing weapon
* Objective turret, an indexable holder of multiple lenses in an optical microscope
* Mi ...
s, tower
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s, and arch
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es. It is the second most photographed building in Missouri. It remains in use by Jasper County officials. (includes 10 photographs from 1972)
The county clerk at the time the courthouse was approved was Annie White Baxter, the first woman to be elected a county clerk in the United States. As a member of county government, she exerted a significant degree of influence in the planning of the building, and she is memorialized on the grounds.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1973.
References
County courthouses in Missouri Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Missouri Government buildings completed in 1895 Buildings and structures in Jasper County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Jasper County, Missouri {{JasperCountyMO-NRHP-stub