Potter County Courthouse

Gettysburg, US

The Potter County Courthouse in Gettysburg, South Dakota was built in 1911. Gettysburg won a war vs. an alternative county seat location. The Second Renaissance Revival-style building has Classical Revival-style influences. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The court

house was designed by the Black Hills Company, a Deadwood-based architecture firm operated by architect John P. Eisentraut. The contractors were Stolte & Mencier of Redfield Gettysburg was established as county seat after bitter dispute with Forest City, South Dakota. Forest City refused to give up the official papers of the county; Frank M. Byrne, later a governor of the state, was involved in a raid to obtain the papers. It is a three-story building.

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