NRHP Reference # 77001006 Added to NRHP 11 April 1977 | Area 1 ha | |
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Location Jefferson St. between Atherton and Brown Sts., Jackson, North Carolina Built 1831 (1831), 1858, 1900 Architectural style Greek Revival architecture | ||
Northampton County Courthouse Square is a historic courthouse complex located at Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina. The courthouse was built in 1858, and is a tall one-story, three bay by three bay, Greek Revival style temple-form brick building. It sits on a raised basement and features an imposing prostyle tetrastyle portico with great fluted Ionic order columns. The building was remodeled and a two-story rear addition built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration. The clerk's and register's office was built in 1831, and is a one-story brick building with stepped parapet gable ends and a plaster cornice. A later clerk's office was built in 1900 between the 1831 building and the courthouse.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.