Carroll County Court House is a historic

courthouse A courthouse or court house is a structure which houses judicial functions for a governmental entity such as a state, region, province, county, prefecture, regency, or similar governmental unit. A courthouse is home to one or more courtrooms, ...

located at Carrollton,

Carroll County, Missouri Carroll County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 8,495. Its county seat is Carrollton. The county was organized on January 2, 1833, from part of Ray County and named for ...

. It was built in 1904, and is a 2 1/2 story,

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 t ...

style building built of locally quarried coursed rough faced

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

. Also on the property is the contributing heroic statue of General James Shields. It was listed on the

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in 1995.

References

Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri County courthouses in Missouri Romanesque Revival architecture in Missouri Government buildings completed in 1904 Buildings and structures in Carroll County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Carroll County, Missouri {{CarrollCountyMO-NRHP-stub