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Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina)

Halifax County Courthouse
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Drinking fountain on the Halifax County Courthouse lawn in April 1938
Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina) is located in North Carolina
Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina)
Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina) is located in the US
Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina)
Location 357 Ferrell Lane, Halifax, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°19′51″N 77°35′22″W / 36.33083°N 77.58944°W / 36.33083; -77.58944Coordinates: 36°19′51″N 77°35′22″W / 36.33083°N 77.58944°W / 36.33083; -77.58944
Built 1850
Architect Wheeler & Stern
Architectural style Classical Revival, Late Victorian
MPS North Carolina County Courthouses TR
NRHP Reference # 79001719
Added to NRHP May 10, 1979

Halifax County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was designed by architects Wheeler & Stern and built in 1909-1910. It is a three-story, tan brick, Classical Revival style building. It has a tetrastyle Corinthian order portico flanked by two-story flat roofed wings and a two-stage cupola atop a shallow mansard roof.

The first Halifax county courthouse was built in 1759. In 1847, the first courthouse was replaced by a second, which itself was replaced in 1910 by a third courthouse erected on the site of the second courthouse. The 1910 courthouse was the present courthouse in 1938, the same year the famed 1938 photo of the drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn was taken. A stone marker presently stands on the courthouse lawn where the photographed drinking fountain resided.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.



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