The Greeley County Courthouse in

Greeley, Nebraska Greeley Center, often shortened to simply Greeley, is a village in and the county seat of Greeley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 466 at the 2010 census. History Greeley Center was established as a town in the late 1880s w ...

was built in 1913–14. It was designed by architects Berlinghof & Davis in

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style. It was listed on the

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in 1990. It is a three-story building on a basement, with foundation and trim of gold-hued

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, and walls of greyish-tan brick. It has been described as "a good example of the work of Nebraska architect George A. Berlinghof (here as Berlinghof & Davis), representing the evolution of his designs. The courthouse is a less elaborate version of the Howard County Courthouse built in 1912-15 in the next county south of Greeley." A former pumphouse is a second

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on the property. With .

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* Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska Neoclassical architecture in Nebraska Government buildings completed in 1914 County courthouses in Nebraska National Register of Historic Places in Greeley County, Nebraska {{Nebraska-NRHP-stub