Robert S. Moore Ave., Arkansas City, Arkansas. County/parish: Desha.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 12, 1976. NRIS 76000403.
1 contributing building.
The Desha County Courthouse, on Robert S. Moore Avenue in Arkansas City, Arkansas, is the county seat of Desha County. The 2+1⁄2-story Romanesque Revival brick building was built in 1900 to a design by Little Rock architect Rome Harding. Its most distinctive feature is its four-story square tower, which features doubled rectangular windows on the first level, a round-arch window on the second, an open round arch on the third, and clock faces on the fourth level. The tower is topped by a pyramidal roof with finial.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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