Brunswick County Courthouse Square
Brunswick County Courthouse Square | |
![]() Brunswick County Courthouse, May 2002 | |
Location | 202, 216, 228, 234 North Main St., Lawrenceville, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 36°45′30″N 77°50′49″W / 36.75833°N 77.84694°W |
Area | 1.6 acres (0.65 ha) |
Built | 1854 | -1855, 1893, 1911, 1941
Architect | Turnbull, E.R.; Kirkland, Robert; Dimmock, Moseley, Browne, Dalgliesh |
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 74002110[1] |
VLR No. | 251-0001 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | December 31, 1974 |
Designated VLR | November 19, 1974, December 17, 2009[2] |
Brunswick County Courthouse Square is a historic county courthouse complex and national historic district located at Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia. It encompasses four contributing buildings and two contributing objects. They are the courthouse building, a clerk's office, library, jail, Confederate war monument, and a simple granite slab monument commemorating the county's veterans of World War I to the Vietnam War. Together they constitute a classic Southern courthouse square. The courthouse was built in 1854–55, as a two-story, gable-roofed rectangular brick building in the Greek Revival style. In 1939, a rear brick addition was completed, creating a T-shaped plan. The clerk's office is a two-story brick building built in 1893, with rear additions built in 1924 and 1939. The library was built in 1941.[3]
The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1] It is located in the Lawrenceville Historic District.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Brunswick County Courthouse Square" (PDF)., David W. Lewes and Meg Greene Malvasi (August 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Brunswick County Courthouse Square" (PDF)., and Accompanying four photos