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Meridian Downtown Historic District
Lauderdale County Courthouse
500 Twenty-first Avenue
 
Built: 1905
 
Architect: P.J. Krouse
 
Architectural Style: Art Deco
 
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123. C 500 Twenty-first Avenue. Lauderdale County Courthouse. Ca. 1905; extensively re-modeled ca. 1939. Art Deco P.J. Krouse, Architect
 
(previously listed individually as a part of the Meridian MRA in 1979) Ten story, brick building with flat roof of tar composition with cornice, entablature with frieze of Gothic arches, ground floor with five, round arch bays with fixed windows, central, double leaf, wood panel doors, cast iron canopy, base and first floor are stone, first floor with 6/6 double hung sash windows, stringcourse, second-eight floors with 6/6 double hung sash windows, decorative brick consoles over windows with terra cotta diamond motifs, top story with diamond pattern brickwork, three sets of triple 6/6 double hung sash windows with rounded arch, lintels and flanking four 6/6 double hung sash windows with segmented arch lintels.
 
Lauderdale County Real Property Appraisal