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Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina)

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Built
  
1850

Opened
  
1850

Added to NRHP
  
10 May 1979

NRHP Reference #
  
79001719

Architecture firm
  
Wheeler & Runge

Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina)

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.

References

Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina) Wikipedia


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