Louisa County Courthouse

Jct. of Main St. and VA 208, Louisa, Virginia. County/parish: Louisa.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 28, 1990. NRIS 90001998.

4 contributing buildings. 2 contributing objects.

Also known as:

  • DHR file # 54-81

From Wikipedia:

Louisa County Courthouse (Virginia)

Louisa County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia. It was designed by architect D. Wiley Anderson from Richmond and built in 1905. It is a two-story, five-bay, porticoed Classical Revival brick structure. It measures 59 feet wide and 63 feet deep and features a pedimented portico supported by four Ionic order columns. It has a modified hipped roof topped by an octagonal drum, dome and lantern. Associated with the courthouse is the contributing old jail built in 1818, and rebuilt in 1868 after a fire; the Crank Building (1830); R. Earl Ogg Memorial Building (1917); and a Civil War monument.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681677

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