Caroline County Courthouse (Virginia)

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Caroline County Courthouse
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Caroline County Courthouse, October 2012
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LocationMain St. and Court House Lane, Bowling Green, Virginia
Coordinates 38°3′3″N77°20′50″W / 38.05083°N 77.34722°W / 38.05083; -77.34722 Coordinates: 38°3′3″N77°20′50″W / 38.05083°N 77.34722°W / 38.05083; -77.34722
Area9 acres (3.6 ha)
Builtc. 1830 (1830)
Architectural styleEarly Republic, Jeffersonian Roman Revival
NRHP reference No. 73001999 [1]
VLR No.171-0003
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 25, 1973
Designated VLRApril 17, 1973 [2]

Caroline County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story, four bay wide, brick temple form building in the Jeffersonian Roman Revival style. The building is surrounded by a Tuscan entablature with a Tuscan pediment at either end. The front facade features an open arcade one-bay deep on the ground floor with six rounded arches. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1] It is included in the Bowling Green Historic District.

In front of the courthouse is the Caroline County Confederate Monument. On August 25, 2020, the Caroline County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to remove it. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "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 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (September 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Caroline County Courthouse" (PDF). and Accompanying photo
  4. Coghill, Jr., Taft (August 26, 2020). "Caroline supervisors must now decide where to relocate Confederate monument". Culpeper Star-Exponent . First published in The Free Lance–Star.