Bacon County Courthouse

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Bacon County Courthouse
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LocationMain St., Alma, Georgia
Coordinates 31°32′28″N82°27′46″W / 31.54111°N 82.46278°W / 31.54111; -82.46278 Coordinates: 31°32′28″N82°27′46″W / 31.54111°N 82.46278°W / 31.54111; -82.46278
Arealess than one acre
Built1919–1920
Built byR.W. Wimbish
ArchitectJ.J. Baldwin
Architectural style Classical Revival
MPS Georgia County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference No. 80000967 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1980

The Bacon County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse on Main Street in Alma, Bacon County, Georgia. It was designed by architect J. J. Baldwin and completed in 1920. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. The Rabinowitz Building was temporally used as the courthouse.

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Courthouse after sundown

According to its National Register nomination, the courthouse is one of only two in Georgia whose main entrances face the corner of a block. The other is the Morgan County Courthouse in Madison, Georgia. [3]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 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 Wilber W. Caldwell Mercer University Press, 2001 613 pages
  3. "Thematic National Register Nomination, Georgia Courthouses, Architectural Survey: Bacon County Jail". National Park Service . Retrieved August 27, 2016.