This former United States Post Office and Federal Courthouse was completed in 1888, and its supervising architects were Mifflin E. Bell and William A. Freret. The rear extension was completed in 1932, and the supervising architect of that extension was James A. Wetmore. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi met here until 1974, but it is now the Monroe County Chancery Court.
The edifice was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
A chancery court is a court of equity that is made separate from regular county courts in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Mississippi.
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