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Cumberland County Courthouse (Cumberland, Virginia)

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Built
  
1818

VLR #
  
024-0005

Area
  
6,100 m²

Added to NRHP
  
30 September 1994

NRHP Reference #
  
94001178

Opened
  
1818

Phone
  
+1 804-492-4848

Architect
  
Dabney Cosby

Cumberland County Courthouse (Cumberland, Virginia)

Location
  
US 60, N side, at jct. with VA 600, Cumberland, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Early Republic, Early Classical Revival

Designated VLR
  
August 17, 1994, May 15, 2007

Address
  
1 Courthouse Circle, Cumberland, VA 23040, USA

Similar
  
Downtown Cumberland Historic D, Lake Habeeb, George Washington's Headquarters, Country Club Mall, Constitution Park

The Cumberland County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Cumberland, Cumberland County, Virginia. It was built by Dabney Cosby (c. 1793-August, 1862), a master builder for Thomas Jefferson, in 1818. It is a brick, one-story, rectangular, gable-roofed courthouse. The building features the Tuscan order throughout and a tetrastyle portico. Also included are the contributing small, brick, one-story clerks office; the brick, two-story, gable-roofed former jail; and Confederate Civil War monument (1901).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It is included in the Cumberland Court House Historic District

References

Cumberland County Courthouse (Cumberland, Virginia) Wikipedia


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