Area less than one acre Opened 1840 Added to NRHP 4 June 1973 | NRHP Reference # 73000554 | |
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Built 1837 (1837)-1840, 1914, 1970 Similar Old Sussex County Courthouse, Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware Art Museum, St Stephen's Episcopal, Second Bank of the United St | ||
Sussex County Courthouse and the Circle is a historic courthouse located at The Circle in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect William Strickland (1788–1854) and built between 1837 and 1840. It is a two-story, brick structure with a brick tower over the entrance hall. It originally featured a squat entrance tower surmounted by an undersized cupola. In 1914, the tower was enlarged and columns were added to the front. Renovations carried out in 1970 gave the building a decidedly more Georgian appearance. The Circle was laid out in 1791-1792 as a public green at the center of a baroque town plan for Georgetown. One of the first building constructed was the Old Sussex County Courthouse, which was moved to allow construction of the current Sussex County Courthouse.
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.