Brunswick County Courthouse Square

Brunswick County Courthouse Square
Brunswick County Courthouse, May 2002
Location 202, 216, 228, 234 North Main St., Lawrenceville, Virginia
Coordinates 36°45′30″N 77°50′49″W / 36.75833°N 77.84694°W / 36.75833; -77.84694Coordinates: 36°45′30″N 77°50′49″W / 36.75833°N 77.84694°W / 36.75833; -77.84694
Area 1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Built 1854 (1854)-1855, 1893, 1911, 1941
Architect Turnbull, E.R.; Kirkland, Robert; Dimmock, Moseley, Browne, Dalgliesh
Architectural style Greek Revival, Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference # 74002110[1]
VLR # 251-0001
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 31, 1974
Designated VLR November 19, 1974, December 17, 2009[2]

Brunswick County Courthouse Square is a historic county courthouse complex and national historic district located at Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia. It encompasses four contributing buildings and two contributing objects. They are the courthouse building, a clerk's office, library, jail, Confederate war monument, and a simple granite slab monument commemorating the county’s veterans of World War I to the Vietnam War. Together they constitute a classic Southern courthouse square. The courthouse was built in 1854-55, as a two-story, gable-roofed rectangular brick building in the Greek Revival style. In 1939, a rear brick addition was completed, creating a T-shaped plan. The clerk's office is a two-story brick building built in 1893, with rear additions built in 1924 and 1939. The library was built in 1941.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1] It is located in the Lawrenceville Historic District.

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (January 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Brunswick County Courthouse Square" (PDF)., David W. Lewes and Meg Greene Malvasi (August 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Brunswick County Courthouse Square" (PDF)., and Accompanying four photos


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