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Adair County Courthouse
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| Location: | Iowa Ave. and 1st St., Greenfield, Iowa |
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| Built: | 1891 |
| Architect: | S.E. Maxon |
| Architectural style: | Romanesque |
| Governing body: | Local |
| MPS: | County Courthouses in Iowa TR |
| NRHP Reference#: | 81000224 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | July 2, 1981 |
The Adair County Courthouse, located in Greenfield, Iowa, was built from 1891-1892. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 as a part of the County Courthouses in Iowa Thematic Resource.[1] The courthouse is the third building the county has used for court functions and county administration.
The county’s first courthouse was located in Fontanelle from 1856 to 1874.[2] It was a two-story frame building constructed from locally harvested wood. After the county seat moved to Greenfield the building was used as a school, church, meeting hall and town hall until it was destroyed in a fire in 1910. A two-story courthouse was built in Greenfield for $8,000.[2] It was destroyed in a fire in 1889 and an opera house was used for a courthouse until a new building could be constructed. The cornerstone for the present courthouse was laid on July 4, 1891. It was constructed of brick in the Romanesque Revival style at a cost of $26,768.[2]
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