Burke County Courthouse (Georgia)

Burke County Courthouse in Waynesboro, Georgia is a "carpenter Romanesque" (perhaps a vernacular Romanesque Revival) building completed in 1857.[2] It is one of just four courthouses in Georgia that were built in the 1850s and still serve as courthouses.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] L.F. Goodrich is credited as the building's architect (likely for renovations or redesign work) and he also designed the Jenkins County Courthouse in Millen, Georgia.[4]

Burke County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Courthouse Sq., Waynesboro, Georgia
Coordinates	33°5′26″N 82°0′57″W
Built	1856
Architect	L.F. Goodrich Et al.
Architectural style	Carpenter Romanesque architecture
MPS	Georgia County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference No.	80000980[1]
Added to NRHP	September 18, 1980

It is a two-story structure built of red brick that is covered with a gritty cement-like mixture "scored to look like very perfect brick"; this treatment does not appear on any other Georgia courthouse but does appear on the Hay House in Macon, Georgia. It has a clock tower that rises in five stages to a pyramidal roof with pedimented clocks. The building also has two winding staircases at the front of the building. A two-story annex was built in 1940 and joined by an open bridge on two levels at the rear of the building.[3]