Daviess County Courthouse 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 Gallatin,

Daviess County, Missouri Daviess County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,430. Its county seat is Gallatin. The county was organized December 29, 1836, from Ray County and named for Major Joseph Hamilton ...

. It was designed by P. H. Weathers and built in 1907–1908. It is a three-story,

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style, cross-plan building of smooth stone. It is topped with a low cross-gable roof with a wooden bell-shaped

clock tower Clock towers are a specific type of structure that 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 building ...

in the center.] (includes 10 photos from 1980) It was listed on the

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in 1980.

References

1908 establishments in Missouri Clock towers in Missouri County courthouses in Missouri Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Renaissance Revival architecture in Missouri Government buildings completed in 1908 Buildings and structures in Daviess County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Daviess County, Missouri {{DaviessCountyMO-NRHP-stub