• Massac County Courthouse - Metropolis IL
    The Massac County Courthouse in Metropolis is one of six New Deal county courthouses built by the New Deal.  It would have been funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA), not the WPA, as commonly thought. The design, by architect S. Lester Daly, is Federal style.  It is a brick building, two-stories high with a raised basement. It has a formal, column-flanked main entrance and side entrances reached by white stairways.  In a classic piece of Americana, the courthouse location has been renamed 1 Superman Square and a statue of the cartoon character stands on a plinth saying “TRUTH – JUSTICE –...