Extreme Makeover Courthouse Edition Traditional Cache
Extreme Makeover Courthouse Edition
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The Lamar County Courthouse, designed by architects Sanguinet & Staats, represents an unusual fusion of Classical Revival with heavy Romanesque details, arches and columns. After a fire destroyed most of downtown Paris in 1916, the damaged 1896 courthouse was de-constructed to provide a foundation and salvage granite for the current 1917 courthouse. The records vault, which pre-dates the 1896 courthouse by seven years, survived the fire and was incorporated into an annex for the 1917 courthouse. Lamar received both a planning grant and a full restoration grant. The restoration included removing non-historic partitions and dropped ceilings throughout the building, opening the courtroom to its original two-story configuration, restoring its balcony and the plaster and stencil work throughout the corridors, stairwells and courtroom. Construction started in the Fall of 2003 and was completed in the Spring of 2006.
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