Louisa County Courthouse (Virginia)

Louisa County Courthouse

Louisa County Courthouse, October 2004
Location Jct. of Main St. and VA 208, Louisa, Virginia
Coordinates 38°1′28″N 78°0′15″W / 38.02444°N 78.00417°W / 38.02444; -78.00417Coordinates: 38°1′28″N 78°0′15″W / 38.02444°N 78.00417°W / 38.02444; -78.00417
Area less than one acre
Built 1830 (1830), 1868, 1905, 1917
Architect Anderson, D. Wiley
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 90001998[1]
VLR # 054-0081
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 28, 1990
Designated VLR April 17, 1990[2]

Louisa County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia. It was designed by architect D. Wiley Anderson from Richmond and built in 1905. It is a two-story, five-bay, porticoed Classical Revival brick structure. It measures 59 feet wide and 63 feet deep and features a pedimented portico supported by four Ionic order columns. It has a modified hipped roof topped by an octagonal drum, dome and lantern. Associated with the courthouse is the contributing old jail built in 1818, and rebuilt in 1868 after a fire; the Crank Building (1830); R. Earl Ogg Memorial Building (1917); and a Civil War monument.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. Elizabeth Womeldorph (April 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Louisa County Courthouse" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photos


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