1940 Art Deco structure erected through Works
Progress Administration
Listed in National Register of Historic Places
on August 22, 1996.
The Randolph County courthouse is Victorian,
Italianate architecture and has a large aluminum seal of the State
of Arkansas over the main entry door behind large square fluted
concrete columns. The foyer, which runs across the front of the
building, contains three large oil paintings depicting aspects of
Arkansas history: one is of Indians, another of the Civil War, and
the third, which shows road building, includes an old Studebaker
wagon. This courthouse faces a sunken garden with benches,
landscaped shrubs, and several lampposts for night illumination.
Approached by means of imposing steps forty-eight feet wide, the
garden dramatizes the view of the hill on which the original 1872
courthouse still stands.
