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Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1910. "Shelby County Courthouse, Adams Avenue and Second Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The statues pictured on July 6, 2024.
This impressive building was designed by James Gamble Rogers, best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, and Northwestern University. And if you click on Google Earth, you will read that this 1909 courthouse with Ionic columns was featured in the movie 'Silence of the Lambs.'
The classical architecture makes me think Shelby is the most distinguished, important county in the nation, and you darn well better be impressed.
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