MADISON COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Asheville, North Carolina
The centerpiece of the Town of Marshall is the Madison County Courthouse, which backs up to the mountainside and faces across the French Broad River Bridge. Crowned by a domed, polygonal cupola and fronted by a Corinthian portico, the Neoclassical, red brick courthouse is similar to the Jackson County Courthouse (1914), also by the firm of Richard Sharp Smith, supervising architect of Biltmore. The Marshall design came soon after Smith & Carrier's partnership was established in 1907; the firm also planned courthouses in Swain and Henderson Counties.
From "A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina", Catherine W. Bishar, Michal T. Southern, & Jennifer F. Martin, 1999, The University of North Carolina Press, pp 247-248.
