Northampton County Courthouse Square
Northampton County Courthouse Square | |
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36°23′24″N 77°25′11″W / 36.39000°N 77.41972°W / 36.39000; -77.41972 | |
Area | 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) |
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Built | 1831 (1831), 1858, 1900 |
Architect | Spencer, Abraham; Burgwyn, H.K. |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 77001006[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 11, 1977 |
Northampton County Courthouse Square is a historic courthouse complex located at Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina. The courthouse was built in 1858, and is a tall one-story, three bay by three bay, Greek Revival style temple-form brick building. It sits on a raised basement and features an imposing prostyle tetrastyle portico with great fluted Ionic order columns. The building was remodeled and a two-story rear addition built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration. The clerk's and register's office was built in 1831, and is a one-story brick building with stepped parapet gable ends and a plaster cornice. A later clerk's office was built in 1900 between the 1831 building and the courthouse.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]
It was built on land previously developed by Jeptha Atherton in 1762, who allowed the use of a building for county court meetings. The Atherton plantation had a large stables and specialized in horse breeding. There was also a gristmill, a tavern, and a store.[3][4][5]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ John Baxton Flowers, III and Catherine W. Cockshutt (n.d.). "Northampton County Courthouse Square" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places - Northampton Courthouse Square in Jackson,NC" (PDF).
- ^ "History of Jackson, North Carolina". Historic Jackson.com.
- ^ "Atherton Tavern and archeological excavations" (PDF). The Scholarship, ECU.
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