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Bradley County Courthouse and Clerk's Office
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property
Bradley County Courthouse 001.jpg
Bradley County Courthouse
Bradley County Courthouse and Clerk's Office is located in Arkansas
Bradley County Courthouse and Clerk's Office
Location in Arkansas
Bradley County Courthouse and Clerk's Office is located in the United States
Bradley County Courthouse and Clerk's Office
Location in the United States
Location Courthouse Square, Warren, Arkansas
Area less than one acre
Built 1903 (1903)
Built by E. L. Koonce
Architect Frank W. Gibb
Part of Warren Commercial Historic District (ID16000433)
NRHP reference No. 76000389
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Added to NRHP December 12, 1976
Designated CP July 11, 2016

Bradley County Courthouse is a courthouse in Warren, Arkansas, United States, the county seat of Bradley County, built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The courthouse was built using two colors of brick and features a 2½ story clock tower.

History

Bradley County was established in 1840 from Union County and was named for Hugh Bradley. Eventually Bradley County was fragmented into five more counties. Pennington Settlement, later renamed Warren, became the county seat around 1840. Two courthouses, a log cabin and later a brick and stucco building, were used for county business until the building of the current structure in 1903.

Architecture

Bradley County Courthouse 003
Former county clerk's office

The Bradley County Courthouse has a two-tone brick exterior with quoin arched windows as well as gauged voussoirs and dentils along the cornices. A tower in one corner of the structure has clocks facing all four directions, an arched cupola, and a hexagonal shaped roof. Also included on the National Register of Historic Places is a one-story brick building built in 1890. Originally the county clerk's office, the building now serves as a library.

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