Municipal Courts Building
- Architect
- Isaac S. Taylor
- Year
- 1911
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- St. Louis, MO
- Collection
- beaux-arts
The Municipal Courts Building was completed in 1911 to a design by Isaac S. Taylor, who had served as chief of construction for the 1904 World's Fair. Built in the Beaux-Arts style, it gave St. Louis's court system a monumental civic home, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
the building
Civic facade. The building presents a monumental Beaux-Arts facade to the street, projecting the institutional authority of the courts housed inside.
the style
The building was designed in the Beaux-Arts style, chosen for a civic building meant to project institutional authority.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Isaac S. Taylor was a major St. Louis architect who served as chief of construction for the 1904 World's Fair before designing the Municipal Courts Building in 1911.
significance
The Municipal Courts Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Missouri Pacific Building
- Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, South
- Christ Church Cathedral
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Building
- Majestic Hotel
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Printing Building