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Spotsylvania Court House Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
83003317

Designated VLR
  
January 18, 1983

Added to NRHP
  
8 September 1983

VLR #
  
088-0142

Area
  
41 ha

Spotsylvania Court House Historic District

Location
  
VA 208, Spotsylvania, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, Federal, Victorian

Spotsylvania Court House Historic District is a national historic district located at Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The district includes 24 contributing buildings in the historic core of Spotsylvania. The principal building is the Spotsylvania Court House, a two-story Roman Revival style brick building built in 1839-1840 and extensively remodeled in 1901. The front facade features a tetrastyle portico in the Tuscan order. Associated with the courthouse is a late-18th century jail and office and storage buildings erected in the 1930s. Other notable buildings include the Spottswood Inn (c. 1800), Berea Church (1856), Christ Church (1841), Dabney Farm, J.P.H. Crismond House (c. 1904), Harris House, and Cary Crismond House.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Spotsylvania Court House Historic District Wikipedia