Buchanan County Courthouse (Boundary Decrease)
Also known as See Also:Buchanan County Courthouse and Jail
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About Buchanan County Courthouse (Boundary Decrease)
Buchanan County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at St. Joseph, Missouri. It was built in 1873, and is a cruciform plan, Renaissance Revival-style brick building. It features pedimented porticos with Corinthian order columns and a glass and tin central dome.
It was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Buchanan County Courthouse and Jail in 1972. Its boundaries were decreased in an amendment in 1978 and the NRHP listing was renamed as "Buchanan County Courthouse", apparently excluding the jail.
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PDFRead the original nominationThe form that put it on the Register, with its history, photos and a map · 19 MB · National Archives↗Make it a walk: 5 landmarks in about 10 minutes
Courthouse Sq., St. Joseph · about 0.2 miles on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Buchanan County Courthouse (Boundary Decrease)Start here
- 2Edmond Jacques Eckel HouseEastlake · next door
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Buchanan County Courthouse and JailRenaissance Revival · 0.1 mi on - 4
Central-North Commercial Historic DistrictLate 19th and 20th Century Revivals · next door - 5
Wholesale RowHigh Victorian · next door
Missouri Valley Trust Company Historic DistrictRenaissance Revival0.1mi
Richardson, John D., Dry Goods CompanyBuilding0.1mi
Benton Club of St. Joseph, TheBuilding0.1mi
Corby-Forsee BuildingBuilding0.2mi
German-American Bank BuildingRichardsonian Romanesque0.2mi
St. Joseph's Commerce and Banking Historic DistrictClassical Revival0.2miMemories of Buchanan County Courthouse (Boundary Decrease)
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Sources: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · National Archives catalog record 63818385 · Wikidata. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.