Wheeler County Courthouse

Wheeler County Courthouse
Wheeler County Courthouse in a 1980 photograph by Calvin Beale
Location Pearl St., Alamo, Georgia
Coordinates 32°08′53″N 82°46′56″W / 32.14813°N 82.78230°W / 32.14813; -82.78230Coordinates: 32°08′53″N 82°46′56″W / 32.14813°N 82.78230°W / 32.14813; -82.78230
Area 1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built 1917
Architectural style Neoclassical
MPS Georgia County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference # 80001263[1]
Added to NRHP September 18, 1980

Wheeler County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Alamo, Georgia. It is located at 119 Pearl Street. The courthouse is brick and has a columned facade on all four sides.[2]

The town of Alamo was incorporated in 1909, and Wheeler County was formed, with Alamo as its county seat, in 1912.[3] In 1914 a courthouse was built, designed the previous year by Ed Hosford as his last Georgia courthouse design.[4] The courthouse burned down in 1916 and was rebuilt in 1917, in a design by Frank P. Milburn in the Neoclassical style. It was renovated in 1961.[5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980.[1]

The courthouse is "relatively lavishly ornamented", relative to other Georgia courthouses, including in its pilasters and the elaborateness of its Corinthian capitals.[6]

See also

The courthouse in 2017

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ The New Georgia Guide (University of Georgia Press, 1996), p. 458
  3. ↑ Paul T. Hellmann, Historical Gazetteer of the United States (Routledge, 2005), p. 216
  4. ↑ Wilber W. Caldwell, The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair: A Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910 (Mercer University Press, 2001), p. 445.
  5. ↑ Wheeler County Courthouse Georgia Info
  6. ↑ "Thematic National Register Nomination, Georgia Courthouses Architectural Survey: Wheeler County Courthouse". National Park Service. Retrieved February 7, 2017. with photos
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