Old Courthouse Museum – Natchitoches
Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The Old Courthouse Museum – Natchitoches is a former courthouse is located at 600 Second Street Natchitoches, Louisiana.
The museum was formerly operated as a branch of Louisiana State Museum that displayed temporary exhibits of art and local history. It is no longer open to the public as a museum.[1]
The second floor of the building houses the Natchitoches Genealogy Library, which includes historic maps, conveyances, mortgages and books, census records and other genealogical papers. The library is open to the public.
Courthouse architecture
The courthouse building, built in 1896, designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by the architectural firm of Favrot and Livaudais.[2] A brick clock tower rises above the building.
The brick courthouse is a historic district contributing property in the Natchitoches Historic District, of the Cane River National Heritage Area
See also
Script error: No such module "Side box".
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Natchitoches Genealogy Library - Visit Natchitoches
Script error: No such module "Coordinates".
Script error: No such module "Authority control".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- Courthouses in Louisiana
- Defunct museums in Louisiana
- Buildings and structures in Natchitoches, Louisiana
- Museums in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
- Louisiana State Museum
- Cane River National Heritage Area
- Historic district contributing properties in Louisiana
- Museums established in 1896
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Louisiana
- Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Louisiana
- National Register of Historic Places in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana