Saline County Courthouse is a historic

courthouse A courthouse or court house is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-spe ...

located at Marshall, Saline County, Missouri. It was designed by

John C. Cochrane John Crombie Cochrane (1835–1887) was a prominent architect in the 19th century practicing in Chicago, Illinois. He formed Cochrane and Garnsey with George O. Garnsey. He began work in Davenport, Iowa in 1856, moving to St. Louis in 1858 aft ...

and built in 1882–1883. It is a two-story, cruciform plan, red brick building and measures 100 feet by 110 feet. It features a four-stage, square

clock tower Clock towers are a specific type of structure which house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another buildi ...

with a pyramidal

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...

roof atop the intersecting wings. (includes 10 photographs) It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

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Clock towers in Missouri County courthouses in Missouri Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Government buildings completed in 1883 Buildings and structures in Saline County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Saline County, Missouri {{SalineCountyMO-NRHP-stub