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Location
Seventh & Douglas Streets, Sioux City, IA

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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.

Notes
Survey number HABS IA-82
Building/structure dates: 1916 initial construction
National Register Number: 73000744
Significance: An important monument to early modern architecture, it is one of the largest Prairie Style buildings ever erected and the only large civic structure in that style in the U.S.

Subjects
Courthouses


Related Names
Purcell & Elmslie
Steele, William
Iannelli, Alfonso
Norton, John W.
Elmslie, George G.


Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Contents
Photograph caption(s): 
1. SOUTHEAST FRONT AND SOUTHWEST SIDE
2. SOUTHEAST FRONT, FROM THE EAST
3. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST FRONT, ENTRANCE, FROM THE EAST
4. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST FRONT, ENTRANCE, FROM THE EAST (MORE OBLIQUE VIEW)
5. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST FRONT, ENTRANCE, ORNAMENTAL OVERDOOR, ELEVATION
6. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST FRONT, ENTRANCE, ORNAMENTAL OVERDOOR, OBLIQUE VIEW
7. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST FRONT, PILASTERS, LOOKING NORTHEAST
8. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST FRONT, PILASTERS, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
9. DETAIL, SOUTHEAST FRONT, PILASTER CAPITALS
10. DETAIL, EAST CORNER, SHOWING INSET WINDOWS AND TERRA-COTTA ORNAMENT
11. DETAIL, TOWER, SOUTHEAST FRONT AND NORTHEAST SIDE
12. DETAIL, TOWER, UPPER PORTION, SOUTHEAST FRONT AND NORTHEAST SIDE
13. DETAIL, TOWER, UPPER PORTION, SOUTHEAST FRONT
14. DETAIL, STREET LAMP COLUMN, BRICKS AND TERRA-COTTA ORNAMENT
15. INTERIOR, MAIN ENTRANCE HALL, FROM THE NORTH
16. INTERIOR, FIRST FLOOR, ENTRANCE TO TREASURER'S OFFICE
17. INTERIOR, ROTUNDA, GENERAL VIEW FROM THE EAST
18. INTERIOR, ROTUNDA, NORTHWEST SIDE, DETAIL OF HEAD OF STAIRCASE
19. INTERIOR, ROTUNDA, MEZZANINE, DETAIL OF COLUMN CAPITAL
20. INTERIOR, ROTUNDA, DETAIL OF DOME
21. INTERIOR, DETAIL OF TYPICAL LIGHTING
22. INTERIOR, DETAIL OF TYPICAL LEADED GLASS DOOR


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