Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina)
Halifax County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Halifax, North Carolina. It is located at 44 King Street. The building was designed by Wheeler & Stern and built in 1909–1910. It is a three-story tan brick building in the Classical Revival style, with a tetrastyle Corinthian portico, two-story wings, and a two-stage cupola on a shallow mansard roof.
Long before this building, the first Halifax County courthouse was completed in 1759. That building was replaced by a second courthouse in 1847, which in turn was replaced in 1910 by the current (third) courthouse on the same site. By 1938, the 1910 courthouse was still in use, and that year a famous photograph captured a drinking fountain on the courthouse lawn. A stone marker now stands on the lawn where the fountain stood.
The Halifax County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 1979.
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