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Louisa County Courthouse (Virginia)

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Area
  
less than one acre

VLR #
  
054-0081

Opened
  
1905

Added to NRHP
  
28 December 1990

NRHP Reference #
  
90001998

Designated VLR
  
April 17, 1990

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Louisa County Courthouse (Virginia)

Location
  
Jct. of Main St. and VA 208, Louisa, Virginia

Built
  
1830 (1830), 1868, 1905, 1917

Louisa County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia. It was designed by architect D. Wiley Anderson from Richmond and built in 1905. It is a two-story, five-bay, porticoed Classical Revival brick structure. It measures 59 feet wide and 63 feet deep and features a pedimented portico supported by four Ionic order columns. It has a modified hipped roof topped by an octagonal drum, dome and lantern. Associated with the courthouse is the contributing old jail built in 1818, and rebuilt in 1868 after a fire; the Crank Building (1830); R. Earl Ogg Memorial Building (1917); and a Civil War monument.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

References

Louisa County Courthouse (Virginia) Wikipedia