The Valley County Courthouse, on 16th St. between L and M Sts. in

Ord Ord or ORD may refer to: Places * Ord of Caithness, landform in north-east Scotland * Ord, Nebraska, USA * Ord, Northumberland, England * Muir of Ord, village in Highland, Scotland * Ord, Skye, a place near Tarskavaig * Ord River, Western Austral ...

Valley County, Nebraska Valley County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 4,260. Its county seat is Ord. In the Nebraska license plate system, Valley County is represented by the prefix 47 (it had the 47t ...

, is a Beaux Arts-style

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 ...

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 1990. It is a two-story building upon a full raised basement and has a prominent, ornamented entry pavilion on its west facade. It is decorated with elaborate cream-colored

terra cotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...

trim which contrasts with the grey-tan brick. It has Ionic columns. With .

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* Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska Beaux-Arts architecture in Nebraska Buildings and structures completed in 1919 Buildings and structures in Valley County, Nebraska County courthouses in Nebraska {{Nebraska-NRHP-stub