{"nrhp_refnum":"02001216","name":"Douglas County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6754 W. Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Douglasville","county":"Douglas County","state":"GA","lat":33.74995195100007,"lon":-84.75009827099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-10-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government","Social History","Black"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story International Style county courthouse at 6754 West Broad Street in Douglasville, Douglas County, Georgia, designed in 1956 by Harry E. Roos, Jr., of the Southern Engineering Company and completed in 1958 by McKown Construction Company.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent example of International Style architecture in rural Georgia and one of very few 1950s county courthouses in the state built in a modern style. It was also the center of county government from 1958 to 1998. It retains a lower-level restroom designated for African Americans during segregation, which the form treats as a surviving physical trace of Jim Crow.","narrative":"Completed in 1958 on the courthouse square in downtown Douglasville, Georgia, this long, low courthouse broke sharply from the classical designs typical of the state's county courthouses. Architect Harry E. Roos, Jr., used a steel frame, glass curtain walls, white glazed brick, cast aluminum, terrazzo floors and a cantilevered concrete entrance porch, with no historical ornament. Only five Georgia courthouses of the 1950s were built in a modern style. It was the fourth courthouse on the square, after three earlier ones were lost to fire, and it served as the county courthouse from 1958 to 1998, when functions moved to a new government center. The lower level keeps an original, small restroom designated for African Americans, a rare surviving reminder of segregation in public buildings. The courthouse stands vacant, and a local tourism and history commission is rehabilitating it as a museum and community center. It was recognized for its architecture, its role in county government and its social history.","period_of_significance":"1958","architect_builder":"Roos, Harry E., Jr. (architect); McKown Construction Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: International Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant and not in use as of the nomination; courthouse functions moved to a new government center in 1998, and a local commission is rehabilitating the building for use as a museum and community center.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.836842-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/02001216.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001216/42b12261d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001216/42b12261d7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Douglas_County_Courthouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Douglas_County_Courthouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"89000850","name":"Douglasville Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/douglasville-commercial-historic-district-89000850/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207888","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_County_Courthouse_(Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5301361"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/douglas-county/douglas-county-courthouse-02001216/"}