Woodson County Courthouse
Yates Center, United States
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The Woodson County Courthouse, located in Courthouse Square in Yates Center, Kansas, is a brick structure built from 1899 to 1900 and designed by architect George P. Washburn, who created thirteen county courthouses across Kansas. Executed in Late Victorian style with elements of Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, and Free Classical design, the building sits on a limestone base and features four corner towers crowned by a central cupola. Three of its four entrances are marked by arched doorways with surrounding porches, while the north entrance displays a prominent limestone arch without a porch. Rectangular windows on the first and second floors give way to arched attic windows, all unified by bands of stone encircling the facade. The courthouse replaced an earlier wooden structure moved from Defiance and served as Yates Center's second courthouse following the county's settlement there in 1876. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as part of the Yates Center Courthouse Square Historic District.
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Movement
- Built
- Type
- county courthouse
- Materials
- brick
- Heritage
- listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Yates Center, United States
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