Burke County Courthouse (Georgia)
United States historic place
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Burke County Courthouse in Waynesboro, Georgia is a "carpenter Romanesque" (perhaps a vernacular Romanesque Revival) building completed in 1857.[2] It is one of just four courthouses in Georgia that were built in the 1850s and still serve as courthouses.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] L.F. Goodrich is credited as the building's architect (likely for renovations or redesign work) and he also designed the Jenkins County Courthouse in Millen, Georgia.[4]
Burke County Courthouse | |
June 2019 | |
  Location within Georgia  Location within the United States | |
| Location | Courthouse Sq., Waynesboro, Georgia |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 33°5′26″N 82°0′57″W |
| Built | 1856 |
| Architect | L.F. Goodrich Et al. |
| Architectural style | Carpenter Romanesque architecture |
| MPS | Georgia County Courthouses TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 80000980[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 18, 1980 |
It is a two-story structure built of red brick that is covered with a gritty cement-like mixture "scored to look like very perfect brick"; this treatment does not appear on any other Georgia courthouse but does appear on the Hay House in Macon, Georgia. It has a clock tower that rises in five stages to a pyramidal roof with pedimented clocks. The building also has two winding staircases at the front of the building. A two-story annex was built in 1940 and joined by an open bridge on two levels at the rear of the building.[3]