Location: Eddyville, Kentucky

The Lewis County Justice Center is a new freestanding 3-story State Courts facility in downtown Vanceburg, Kentucky . It houses both District Court offices and chambers, and Circuit Court Offices and chambers.   The first floor accommodates the Circuit Court Clerk operations.

This small river town has few buildings of the scale of this facility and limited prevailing architectural style to respond to.   The existing County  Courthouse was constructed in the early 1900's of a locally quarried stone.   This building provides the only local design benchmark that could influence this new building.   The new Annex is a Greek Revival structure, fitting with traditional nature of the community it serves.   Its Doric order defined in its colonnade; pediment and cornice design set the scale and character of the building.   This order was selected to respond to the existing courthouse building as a sister structure and intended to be a compatible neighbor on its urban site.   The base of the building is a cast stone designed to replicate the texture and color of the natural stone of the existing courthouse.   The symmetrical design is driven by the nature of the organization of the courtrooms and the associated suites of service spaces.   This symmetry lends itself well to the classical order.   The design of the window casings and detailing are a natural extension of this classic order of design. The total design concept is intended to convey the security of, and commitment to justice as provided in the State Courts of Kentucky.