The Jefferson County Courthouse in Courthouse Square in
Louisville, Georgia
Louisville is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Georgia, United States, and also a former state capital of Georgia. It is located southwest of Augusta on the Ogeechee River, and its population was 2,493 at the 2010 census, do ...
was built in 1904. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1980.
[ It is also a contributing property to the ]Louisville Commercial Historic District
The Louisville Commercial Historic District, in Louisville, Georgia, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
It includes 41 contributing buildings and a contributing structure in an area surr ...
.
It was designed by architect W.F. Denny who died in 1905, and was built by contractor F.P. Hiefner. It is Classical Revival
Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassic ...
in style. It has an Ionic tetrastyle entrance and Ionic pilasters
In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an ext ...
.[
It stands on the site of Georgia's "Old State House", the state's first capitol building; old brick and timbers of the historic building's foundation were found during construction.][ With .]
See also
*Louisville Commercial Historic District
The Louisville Commercial Historic District, in Louisville, Georgia, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
It includes 41 contributing buildings and a contributing structure in an area surr ...
References
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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Neoclassical architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
1904 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Government buildings completed in 1904
National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Georgia
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