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The Rice County Courthouse, located at 218 3rd Street NW in Faribault, Rice County in the U.S. state of Minnesota is an Art Deco building constructed of natural-face Faribault stone horizontally banded at intervals with sawed-faced stone. Nairne W. Fisher of St. Cloud was the architect for the courthouse, and is also credited with designing the Pope County Courthouse. The main rotunda has metal fixtures and Art Deco glass. Polished black and gray Tennessee marble is used extensively in the walls, floors, and stairs, with a terrazzo map of Rice County centered on the floor. The sixteen-foot high courtroom on the third floor is finished with fine-grained walnut walls with matching custom-built furnishings. The building was built in 1934[4] at a cost of $200,000.[1]
The jail building, constructed in 1910, was designed by Albert Schippel of Mankato, Minnesota.
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