Location: Inez, Kentucky

The Martin County Fiscal Court - in conjunction with the Administrative Office of the Courts, and based on their lack of much needed judicial space - decided in 1992 to fund construction of a courts building for the County.   The previous court space was housed in the County courthouse, constructed between 1938 and 1941 by the Federal Government PWA program.   Even though it is a large, two-story structure that accommodated both county offices and judicial areas, the County's and Court's need for space was continually increasing.

The present courts building is also two stories with 13,300 square feet of space.   The Circuit Clerk area and the District courtroom and its related office and conference spaces are on the first floor.   The second floor contains the Circuit courtroom and its accompanying areas.

The building has a driven pile foundation on caissons with steel joist framing on load bearing masonry with steel beam and column framing.   CMW handled all phases of the work from planning to landscaping and furnishings.   As with all of our more recent courthouse projects, this facility complies with The Americans With Disabilities Act (1990) requirements.

Certain exterior features of the County courthouse were duplicated on the new Courts building.   Combining a rough exterior, textured look with flattened classical style details gives the building a compatible look that blends with the older courthouse.