Rockingham County Courthouse | |
Location | Courthouse Square, Harrisonburg, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 38°26′58″N 78°52′10″W / 38.44944°N 78.86944°W |
Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
Built | 1896 | -1897
Built by | Spiers, W.E. |
Architect | Collins, T.J. |
Architectural style | Renaissance, Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 82004566[1] |
VLR No. | 115-0002 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | September 16, 1982 |
Designated VLR | July 20, 1982[2] |
Rockingham County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was designed by T.J. Collins (1844–1925) and built in 1896–1897. The courthouse is a 3 1/2-story building of coursed rusticated ashlar above a raised basement. It has a tile covered hipped roof with a molded cornice with dentilwork above a plain frieze. The building has elements of the Richardsonian Romanesque and Romanesque Revival styles. It has a projecting central pavilion with a two-stage clock tower. Fronting the pavilion is a triple arched portico on the first story formed by slender columns set on square pedestals with a heavy stone balustrade above. It is the fifth courthouse to stand on the site since Rockingham was formed from Augusta County, Virginia in 1778.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]