Wheeler County Courthouse

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Wheeler County Courthouse
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Wheeler County Courthouse in a 1980 photograph by Calvin Beale
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LocationPearl St., Alamo, Georgia
Coordinates 32°08′53″N82°46′56″W / 32.14813°N 82.78230°W / 32.14813; -82.78230 Coordinates: 32°08′53″N82°46′56″W / 32.14813°N 82.78230°W / 32.14813; -82.78230
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1917
Architectural styleNeoclassical
MPS Georgia County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference No. 80001263 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1980

Wheeler County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Alamo, Georgia. It is located at 119 Pearl Street. The courthouse is brick and has a columned facade on all four sides. [2]

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The town of Alamo was incorporated in 1909, and Wheeler County was formed, with Alamo as its county seat, in 1912. [3] In 1914 a courthouse was built, designed the previous year by Ed Hosford as his last Georgia courthouse design. [4] The courthouse burned down in 1916 and was rebuilt in 1917, in a design by Frank P. Milburn in the Neoclassical style. It was renovated in 1961. [5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. [1]

The courthouse is "relatively lavishly ornamented", relative to other Georgia courthouses, including in its pilasters and the elaborateness of its Corinthian capitals. [6]

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The courthouse in 2017 Wheeler County Courthouse, Alamo, GA, US (17).jpg
The courthouse in 2017

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. The New Georgia Guide (University of Georgia Press, 1996), p. 458
  3. Paul T. Hellmann, Historical Gazetteer of the United States (Routledge, 2005), p. 216
  4. Wilber W. Caldwell, The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair: A Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910 (Mercer University Press, 2001), p. 445.
  5. Wheeler County Courthouse Georgia Info
  6. "Thematic National Register Nomination, Georgia Courthouses Architectural Survey: Wheeler County Courthouse". National Park Service . Retrieved February 7, 2017. with photos