Scott 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 Benton,

Scott County, Missouri Scott County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,059. Its county seat is Benton. The county was organized in 1821 and named for U.S. Representative John S ...

. It was designed by architect

Henry H. Hohenschild Henry H. Hohenschild (June 2, 1862 – February 3, 1928), also known as H.H. Hohenschild, was an architect based in Rolla, Missouri, USA. He was born in St. Louis, and educated in the city's public schools. Hohenschild moved to Rolla in 1881, ...

and built in 1912. It is a

reinforced concrete Reinforced concrete (RC), also called reinforced cement concrete (RCC) and ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having hig ...

Beaux Arts style building sheathed in brick. It has a "T"-plan consisting of a three-story, five bay, central block with two-story wings. Three bays of the central block are recessed behind colossal

Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...

columns that support a dentiled entablature. It features

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and cast stone ornamentation. (includes 11 photographs from 2003) It was added to 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 2004.

References

County courthouses in Missouri Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Beaux-Arts architecture in Missouri Government buildings completed in 1912 Buildings and structures in Scott County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Scott County, Missouri {{ScottCountyMO-NRHP-stub