Burke County Courthouse (Georgia)

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Burke County Courthouse
Burke County Courthouse - Waynesboro.jpg
June 2019
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LocationCourthouse Sq., Waynesboro, Georgia
Coordinates 33°5′26″N82°0′57″W / 33.09056°N 82.01583°W / 33.09056; -82.01583 Coordinates: 33°5′26″N82°0′57″W / 33.09056°N 82.01583°W / 33.09056; -82.01583
Built1856
Architect L.F. Goodrich Et al.
Architectural style Carpenter Romanesque architecture
MPS Georgia County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference No. 80000980 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1980
April 2011 Burke County Courthouse; Waynesboro, Georgia; April 16, 2011.JPG
April 2011

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]

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Burke County Courthouse Georgia Info
  3. 1 2 "Thematic National Register Nomination -- Georgia Courthouses -- Architectural Survey: Burke County Courthouse". National Park Service. 1980. Retrieved April 12, 2017..
  4. Jenkins County Courthouse Georgia Info