 Both of these 1954 additions were bland, utilitarian structures of no particular architectural merit.Later when the county outgrew this assemblage of buildings, it decided to build a new courthouse and constitutional officers complex to the south of the original courthouse and to tear down the original courthouse, all additions and the annex.The City of Stuart, though, with much public support, prevailed on the county commission to save the 1937 addition and to use it as a cultural center.