Lake County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence

Infobox_nrhp | name =Lake County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence
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location= Two Harbors, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 47
lat_minutes = 1
lat_seconds = 19.7
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 91
long_minutes = 40
long_seconds = 17.3
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1906cite web| title =Lake County, MN| publisher =Lake County, MN| url =http://www.co.lake.mn.us/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B1820F574-07AB-4203-A85C-938CD821522A%7D| accessdate =2007-10-18]
architect=James MacLeod, Pastoret & Lunz
architecture=Beaux Arts, Queen Anne style
added = February 24, 1983
governing_body =Local Government
refnum=83000912cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-10-16|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] [cite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MN/Lake/state.html|title=National Register of Historic Places|date=2007-10-16|publisher=National Park Service] The Lake County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence, located at 601 3rd Avenue in Two Harbors, Lake County in the U.S. state of Minnesota was built in 1906. In 1888 a two-story brick sheriff's residence and jail was erected with an adjacent Queen Anne style style courthouse. A 1904 fire destroyed the courthouse, but the jail and residence remained. The replacement building, designed in the Beaux Arts style by James Allen MacLeod was built of brick and limestone, featuring quoin blocks, stone window surrounds with large keystones, dentil moulding, and four large columns supporting the entry overhang. The courtroom was topped with an open semi-circular dome covered with metallic scaled shakes. In 1945, the dome was enclosed from below. Axel Edward Soderberg was commissioned to paint murals depicting "Law and Justice", commerce, mining, and logging, at a cost of $1,500 in 1905. The jail and residence building were razed in the 1990s.

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