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Woodbury County Court House
William L. Steele, architect
Purcell and Elmslie, associated architects
Sioux City, Iowa 1915/1916
- Perspective drawing (1916)
| This building is on the National Register of Historic Places (Iowa--Woodbury
County; added December 18, 1973).
IMPORTANT NEWS: As of June 2006 [and January 1, 2015], there was serious water damage to the foundations of the building, including standing water in the basement, with resulting harm to rebar, concrete, and structural supports of load bearing walls. The National Historic Landmarks Program has a web page up that determines the building to be "threatened."
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 Construction photo (7/11/1917) |
 Postcard |
 Front view circa 1918 |
 Rear view, circa 1918 |
 Interior, lobby, circa 1918 |
 Interior, mezzanine balcony, circa 1918 |
 Office tower, 1981 |
 Detail, tower |
 Detail, molding course and capital |
 Detail, terracotta beneath eave |
 Detail, eagle |
 Figural group Alphonso Ianelli, sculptor |
 Detail, figural group |
 Figure Alphonso Ianelli, sculptor |
 Bison figure over receiving dock |
 Detail, main lobby balcony |
 Column detail, second floor lobby |
 Column detail, first floor lobby |
 Clock, lobby |
 Fountain mosaic Sourece: Woodbury County Court House site |
 Fountain mosaic |
 Electrolier Source: Woodbury County Court House site |
 Mural cartoon, by John W. Norton |
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96 images are available from the University of Minnesota digital database.
 Drawings (19 images) |
 Terracotta and Sculpture, circa 1910s (18 images) |
 Exterior, archival circa 1910s (31 images) |
 Interior, archival circa 1910s (25 images) |
 Other (3 images) |
Documents
- Correspondence (1915-1923)
Other References
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Illustrations of this building appear on page 580 and page 581 of "George Grant Elmslie and the Chicago Scene," by Talbot Hamlin in Pencil Points (September, 1941) |
 Illustrations of this building appear in the catalog for the "Purcell & Elmslie, Architects" exhibition at the Walker Art Center in 1953 |
Texts
- Parabiographies entry, by William Gray Purcell
Other Resources
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24 images (22 b&w, 2 color) are available from the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record at Library of Congress. This link goes to a summary page on my server, with a link to the HABS site for download of higher resolution versions of the thumbnails.
 Source: Woodbury County Court House site |
 Source: Woodbury County Court House site |
 Source: Woodbury County Court House site |
 Source: Woodbury County Court House site |
- Woodbury County has a good photograph page on their Court House
National Historic Landmarks Program page
research courtesy mark hammons