Wayne County Courthouse (Nebraska)

Wayne County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	510 Pearl St., Wayne, Nebraska
Coordinates	42°14′03″N 97°01′11″W
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1899
Built by	Rowles & Moore
Architect	Orff & Guilbert
Architectural style	Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	79001458[1]
Added to NRHP	May 2, 1979

The Wayne County Courthouse, at 510 Pearl St. in Wayne, Nebraska, is a Richardsonian Romanesque-style historic courthouse that was built in 1899. It is a 70-by-80-foot (21 m × 24 m) building located in the center of a 4-acre (1.6 ha) square amidst, somewhat unexpectedly, a residential neighborhood.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

Its cornerstone indicates that it was designed by Minneapolis architects Orff & Guilbert, but it seems to have been wholly designed by Fremont D. Orff (1856–1914) alone, and it was built by Omaha contractors Rowles & Moore.[2][3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Daniel Kidd (February 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Wayne County Courthouse". National Park Service. and accompanying three photos from 1977
3. See commons photo of cornerstone at Commons:File:Wayne County Courthouse (Nebraska) cornerstone.JPG

External links

• More photos of the Wayne County Courthouse at Wikimedia Commons