Iberia Parish Courthouse and Jail - New Iberia LA

City:: New Iberia, LA
Site Type:: Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Started:: 1938
Completed:: 1940
Artist:: Conrad A. Albrizio
Designer:: A. H. Town
Contractors:: Gravier & Harper, I. M. Goldberg
Marked:: Yes

Description

The modernist Iberia Parish Courthouse was undertaken in New Iberia, Louisiana during the Great Depression with the assistance of funds provided by the Public Works Administration (PWA). The three story, Art-Deco style building had white stucco walls and was completed for a cost of $410,863. The original courtroom contains the last federally directed mural by Conrad Albrizio, The Struggle of Man, completed in 1940. The courthouse entered use in 1940 and was officially dedicated on Armistice Day, 1941.

Source notes

Cowan, B. (December 30, 2010). Conrad Albrizio. In David Johnson (Ed.) KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana, 2010. Retrieved from https://www.knowla.org/entry/583/

Leighninger, R. (February 1, 2011). Public Works Administration Architecture. In David Johnson (Ed.) KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2010. Retrieved from https://knowla.org/entry/495/

Leighninger, R. D. (2007). Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration. The University Press of Mississippi.

Site originally submitted by Susan C. Allen on December 3, 2014.