Uinta County Courthouse

Wyoming, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Uinta County Courthouse in Evanston, Wyoming is the oldest courthouse building in the state and one of its oldest permanent structures. Built in three phases beginning with a two-story jail in 1873 by local contractors Harvey Booth and William McDonald, the complex was expanded with court facilities the following year, and again in 1910 when the main Georgian Revival section was constructed with its present façade. The front section is a brick structure, two stories high, featuring quoined corners and a central portico supported by two unfluted Ionic stone columns backed by engaged pilasters, crowned by a tiled roof with dentiled cornice. The masonry walls of the original 1873–1874 portion bear a distinctive red stain from a mixture reportedly containing slaughterhouse blood and stale beer. The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.