Leake County Courthouse - Carthage MS

City:: Carthage, MS
Site Type:: Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Started:: 1935
Completed:: 1936
Designer:: Edgar Lucian Malvaney
Contractor:: J. R. Flint Construction Company
Quality of Information:: Very Good
Site Survival:: Extant

Description

The three-story, brick and cast stone Art Deco courthouse was constructed 1935-36 as Public Works Administration (PWA) Project Miss. 1042. It was remodeled in 1976.

Source notes

Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?view=facts Preziosi, D. (n.d.) Nomination form for Carthage Historic District, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/district.aspx?view=facts&id=230

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 2, 2015.