{"nrhp_refnum":"03000570","name":"Prince Georges County Courthouse Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"6400 Courthouse Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Prince George","county":"Prince George County","state":"VA","lat":37.221927676000064,"lon":-77.286537926066,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district at 6400 Courthouse Road on State Route 106 in Prince George County, Virginia, forming the core of the county seat. It has eleven contributing buildings, two noncontributing buildings and three contributing objects, dating from about 1870 through the mid-twentieth century.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A in the area of Government/Politics. It documents the rebuilding of county government after the courthouse was burned in 1864 during the siege of Petersburg. The courthouse complex grew in stages from 1870 to 1952, alongside a small private village.","narrative":"Prince George County's government center sits on both sides of a sharp bend in State Route 106. The district groups eleven contributing buildings, two noncontributing buildings and three memorials. The court buildings stand on the north side of the road, with privately owned buildings to the south, including an 1870s store and a Victorian residence. The brick 1883 courthouse, designed by F.L. Leavenworth, reflects temple-form courthouse design and is considered an early Colonial Revival example. Nearby are the 1900 clerk's office, now a library, a former jail, and a 1935 office building. A 1920s bungalow was later adapted for county offices. Memorials honor those lost in the Civil War, both World Wars, Korea and Vietnam. The district matters because the county lost its earlier courthouse when Union troops burned it in 1864. Court sessions then met in private homes and temporary buildings until a permanent seat was rebuilt, and the complex kept growing through 1952.","period_of_significance":"1870-1952","architect_builder":"F.L. Leavenworth, Architect; J. Chappell, Builder","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Craftsman/Bungalow, Victorian (Colonial Revival described for the court buildings)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The 1883 courthouse has not been used as a courthouse since 1991 and now houses county administration offices. The former clerk's office is a library, and other buildings serve as county offices.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.448515-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/6826/41682696/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000570.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000570/467ee4892c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000570/467ee4892c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Taber Andrew Bain from Richmond, VA, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Prince_George_County_Courthouse_(2059789844).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Taber Andrew Bain from Richmond, VA, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Prince_George_County_Courthouse_(2059789844).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682696","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George_County_Courthouse_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15268618"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/prince-george-county/prince-georges-county-courthouse-historic-district-03000570/"}