Charles City County Courthouse

United States historic place

Significant dates

Charles City County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register

Charles City historic courthouse, 2018
37°20′29″N 77°4′21″W / 37.34139°N 77.07250°W / 37.34139; -77.07250
Area	Less than one acre
Built	1730 (1730)
NRHP reference No.	69000335^[1]
VLR No.	018-0005
Added to NRHP	November 12, 1969
Designated VLR	September 9, 1969^[2]

The Charles City County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia. It was built about 1730, and is a one-story, T-shaped, brick structure. It has an apparently original modillion cornice and a steep hipped roof covered in tin. It features an arcaded front. Also on the property are a contributing Confederate monument, a late 19th-century clerk's office with later additions, and a frame jail building built about 1867.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission staff (July 1969). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Charles City County Courthouse" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. Retrieved 2013-06-14. and Accompanying photo at Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission