Brunswick County Courthouse Square

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]

Brunswick County Courthouse Square
Brunswick County Courthouse, May 2002
Location202, 216, 228, 234 North Main St., Lawrenceville, Virginia
Coordinates36°45′30″N 77°50′49″W
Area1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Built1854 (1854)-1855, 1893, 1911, 1941
ArchitectTurnbull, E.R.; Kirkland, Robert; Dimmock, Moseley, Browne, Dalgliesh
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.74002110[1]
VLR No.251-0001
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 31, 1974
Designated VLRNovember 19, 1974, December 17, 2009[2]

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

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. 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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