Cumberland County Courthouse (Virginia)

Coordinates: 37°29′55″N 78°14′41″W / 37.49861°N 78.24472°W

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

Cumberland County Courthouse, taken in 2015
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Location	US 60, N side, at jct. with VA 600, Cumberland, Virginia
Coordinates	37°29′55″N 78°14′41″W / 37.49861°N 78.24472°W / 37.49861; -78.24472
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1818
Architect	Howard, William A.
Architectural style	Early Republic, Early Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	94001178 ^[1]
VLR No.	024-0005
Added to NRHP	September 30, 1994
Designated VLR	August 17, 1994, May 15, 2007^[2]

The Cumberland County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Cumberland, Cumberland County, Virginia. It was built by Dabney Cosby (c. 1793-August, 1862), a master builder for Thomas Jefferson, in 1818. It is a brick, one-story, rectangular, gable-roofed courthouse. The building features the Tuscan order throughout and a tetrastyle portico. Also included are the contributing small, brick, one-story clerks office; the brick, two-story, gable-roofed former jail; and Confederate Civil War monument (1901).^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1] It is included in the Cumberland Court House Historic District

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^ Marc C. Wagner (April 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cumberland County Courthouse" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources., Jean McKae (May 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cumberland County Courthouse" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo

External links

Cumberland County Courthouse, U.S. Route 60, Cumberland, Cumberland County, VA: 3 photos and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
Cumberland County Courthouse, Clerk's Office, U.S. Route 60, Cumberland, Cumberland County, VA: 1 photo at Historic American Buildings Survey

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