Property

Location Information
(for the Tippah County Courthouse)

Name:

Tippah County Courthouse

Address:

Courthouse Square

City/County:

Ripley, Tippah County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1928

Architectural Styles(s):

Eclectic/Composite

Registration Information

NR District Name:

Ripley (2005)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

Mississippi Landmark Information

Designated:

07-23-1996

Recorded:

09-18-1996

Book/Vol. No.:

V. 175, p. 196

Context/Comments

The Tippah County Courthouse is an eclectic building with Classical and Mediterranean Style elements that was built in 1928. Its most distinctive features are the sculpted figures of World War I soldiers standing atop columns in front of the arched entrance loggias on the east and west façades. It was designated as a Mississippi Landmark in 1996. It is listed as a contributing element (element #1-a) in the Ripley Historic District, which was placed on the National Register in April 2005.

This building is included in "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p. 160, NE2).