The Tucker County Courthouse and Jail in

Parsons, West Virginia Parsons is the county seat and largest city in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,322 at the 2020 census. The mayor of Parsons is Dorothy Judy and the city administrator is Jason Myers. The city is also governed by ...

was built between 1898 and 1900 in a combination of

Flemish Renaissance The Renaissance in the Low Countries was a cultural period in the Northern Renaissance that took place in around the 16th century in the Low Countries (corresponding to modern-day Belgium, the Netherlands and French Flanders). Culture in the Low C ...

and

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...

styles. The red pressed-brick structure is flanked by a "jail and jailer's residence" built in 1896 in a similar style. The main courthouse was designed by

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

Frank P. Milburn and built by P.O. Shrake. Milburn was a prolific designer of courthouses in West Virginia and across the southern United States. The jail was designed by Franzeim, Geisey and Faris and was built by William D. Bumgarner. The Tucker County Courthouse was established in the wake of the

Tucker County Seat War The Tucker County Seat War (1893) was a dispute between the towns of Parsons and St. George, in Tucker County, West Virginia, over which should be the county seat. History Tucker County, Virginia (now West Virginia) was created in 1856 out ...

(1893). The historic jail is no longer used to confine inmates. Since 2005 the Tygart Valley Regional Jail in

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has also served Tucker County.The facility's mailing address, however, is Belington, just over the border in Barbour County.

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