Built 1850 Opened 1850 Added to NRHP 10 May 1979 | NRHP Reference # 79001719 Architecture firm Wheeler & Runge | |
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Location 357 Ferrell Lane, Halifax, North Carolina MPS North Carolina County Courthouses TR Architectural styles Victorian architecture, Neoclassical architecture Similar Halifax State Historic S, Stokes County Courthouse, Caldwell County Courthouse, Wilkes County Courthouse | ||
Halifax County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was designed by architects Wheeler & Stern and built in 1909-1910. It is a three-story, tan brick, Classical Revival style building. It has a tetrastyle Corinthian order portico flanked by two-story flat roofed wings and a two-stage cupola atop a shallow mansard roof.
The first Halifax county courthouse was built in 1759. In 1847, the first courthouse was replaced by a second, which itself was replaced in 1910 by a third courthouse erected on the site of the second courthouse. The 1910 courthouse was the present courthouse in 1938, the same year the famed 1938 photo of the drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn was taken. A stone marker presently stands on the courthouse lawn where the photographed drinking fountain resided.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.