Off GA 37, Fort Gaines, Georgia. County/parish: Clay.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 18, 1980. NRIS 80000992.
Part of Georgia County Courthouses TR (NRIS 64000130).
2 contributing buildings.
The Clay County Courthouse in Fort Gaines, Georgia was built in about 1871. It is a two-story brick building that "looks more like an antebellum plantation house than a courthouse." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
It is described as "Carpenter style with Classic details". It is a two-story hipped-roof building. It has a portico with square columns and a balcony on the second floor, and it has colossal pilasters on each end of its facade.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205932