Middlesex County Courthouse

Jct. of U.S. 17, Saluda, Virginia. County/parish: Middlesex.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 21, 1978. NRIS 78003029.

3 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

Middlesex County Courthouse (Saluda, Virginia)

The Middlesex County Courthouse in Saluda, Virginia was built in 1852. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1978. The courthouse building "is a late but significant example of the arcaded-plan courthouse which had its precedent in Virginia's colonial courthouses and earliest civic buildings."

The NRHP listing included three contributing buildings: the courthouse, a clerk's office, and a jail. And it included one other contributing structure, which is a Confederate Civil War monument.

John P. Hill was builder of the courthouse building and was paid $1.010.95 out of a sheriff's levy of taxpayers to provide for that purpose. William R. Jones was builder of the jail.: 3 

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681962

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