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Pierce City Fire Station, Courthouse and Jail is a historic multipurpose
fire station __NOTOC__ A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire ...
, courthouse, and jail building located at
Pierce City Pierce City, formerly Peirce City, is a city in southwest Lawrence County, Missouri, Lawrence and northwest Barry County, Missouri, Barry counties, in southwest Missouri, United States. The population was 1,292 at the 2010 United States Census, 201 ...
,
Lawrence County, Missouri Lawrence County is located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri, in the area of the Ozarks. As of the 2010 census, the population was 38,634. Its county seat is Mount Vernon. The county was organized in 1845 and named for Jame ...
. It was built in 1886, and is a two-story,
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
style brick building. It measures 25 feet by 75 feet. It features a distinctive square, hipped roof bell tower and tall vertically oriented windows topped by rectangular topped hoods. The building was the focal point of a race riot August 18–20, 1901, which received national attention and, in part, inspired Mark Twains essay " The United States of Lyncherdom". (includes 6 photographs from 1998) 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 ...
in 1998.


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Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Italianate architecture in Missouri Government buildings completed in 1886 Buildings and structures in Lawrence County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence County, Missouri Courthouses in Missouri Jails in Missouri Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri {{LawrenceCountyMO-NRHP-stub