Iowa County Courthouse (Wisconsin)

The present courthouse is the fourth to serve Iowa County. Three earlier courthouses had stood in Mineral Point. In a November 1858 election, a majority of voters chose to move the county seat to Dodgeville. Work to build the courthouse began in early 1859, with stonework by newly immigrated workmen from Cornwall, England. ==Architecture==

The courthouse is a two-story Greek Revival temple-style building. It is notable as a unique manifestation of otherwise standard Greek Revival architecture using locally available materials. Local resident Ernest Wiesen drew the plans for the courthouse, likely copying elements from the 1854 book The Modern Architect by Edward Shaw. The exterior walls consist of buff-colored local Galena limestone and the entrances are framed with carved stone pilasters and pediments. The roof is surmounted with a small eight-sided cupola and dome. ==Notes==