Gem County Courthouse

United States historic place


Gem County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


43°52′31″N 116°29′42″W / 43.875250°N 116.495106°W / 43.875250; -116.495106
Area	less than one acre
Built	1938 (1938)
Built by	Richardson, David
Architect	Hummel, Frank
Architectural style	Modern Movement, Art Deco
MPS	Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
NRHP reference No.	82000347^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 17, 1982

The Gem County Courthouse, located at the intersection of Main St. and McKinley Ave. in Emmett, serves Gem County, Idaho. The courthouse was built in 1938 to give the small county a government building, as it had been without one since the previous courthouse burned in 1920. Architect Frank Hummel of Tourtellotte and Hummel designed the Art Deco building. The two-and-one-half-story concrete building features a projecting three-story entrance with fluted columns and cross vents on either side of the doorway. Each side of the front facade features four sets of windows separated by fluted pilasters.^[2]

The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Inventory Sheet For Group Nominations: Gem County Courthouse" (PDF). Idaho State Historical Society. Retrieved July 2, 2014.