Goochland County Court Square
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Goochland County Courthouse, HABS Photo
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Location | On VA 6, Goochland, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 37°40′57″N 77°53′04″W / 37.68250°N 77.88444°WCoordinates: 37°40′57″N 77°53′04″W / 37.68250°N 77.88444°W |
Area | 10 acres (4.0 ha) |
Built | 1826 |
Architect | Cosby, Dabney; Parrish, Valentine |
Architectural style | Early Republic, Roman Revival |
NRHP reference # | 70000797 |
VLR # | 037-0136 |
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Added to NRHP | September 15, 1970 |
Designated VLR | July 7, 1970 |
Goochland County Court Square is a historic county courthouse and national historic district located at Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia. It includes 3 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. The Goochland County Court House was built in 1826 by Dabney Cosby, and is a two-story, temple-form brick structure with a projecting pedimented tetrastyle Tuscan order portico. Other buildings in the square include the 1848 two-story hipped roof stone jail, the original one-story brick clerk's office, and a monument to the Confederate dead of Goochland County.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.