Claiborne Parish Court House

The 1860 courthouse is more interesting for what it lost. It is a two-story peripteral building, a brick Doric colonnade running all the way round it under a pyramid roof and cupola, and the only example of its kind in north Louisiana. A 1964 renovation obliterated evidence of the original interiors, and the courtroom may first have been downstairs before it moved up in the early twentieth century. The building has been substantially reworked several times, and only two of the square's original live oaks remain.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 12 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 27 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• Lake Bistineau State Park — 31 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.

More markers nearby

• Homer College (CME) / African American Education in Louisiana — 1.7 mi
• T. H. Harris — 5.3 mi
• Arizona Academy Site — 5.6 mi
• St. John Colored School — 6.0 mi