The Bartow County Courthouse, built in 1902, is an historic redbrick

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style county courthouse located on Courthouse Square in Cartersville,

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. Designed by the

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architectural firm of Kenneth McDonald & Co. together with self-taught Georgia architect J. W. Golucke, who is said to have designed 27 courthouses in Georgia and four in

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, it is Bartow County's third courthouse and the second one built in Cartersville. The first courthouse built in Cassville, while the county was known as ''Cass County'', was burned by

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's troops in 1864. In 1867 the county seat was moved to Cartersville and the second courthouse was built in 1873. It proved to be unsatisfactory because court proceedings had to be halted while trains passed by on the nearby railroad. In 1992 a courthouse annex known as the ''Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Center'' was completed. While the 1902 building is still used for some court purposes, most of the proceedings are held in the 1992 building. On September 18, 1980, the 1902 courthouse was added to the

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* Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Neoclassical architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Government buildings completed in 1902 Buildings and structures in Bartow County, Georgia Former county courthouses in Georgia (U.S. state) Clock towers in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Bartow County, Georgia 1902 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) {{GeorgiaUS-NRHP-stub