{"nrhp_refnum":"06000844","name":"Catoosa County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7694 Nashville St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ringgold","county":"Catoosa County","state":"GA","lat":34.91564039200006,"lon":-85.11078765299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Colonial Revival courthouse at 7694 Nashville Street in Ringgold, the seat of Catoosa County, Georgia, completed in 1939 on about 0.56 acres.","why_significant":"It is a fine example of a New Deal-era Colonial Revival county courthouse that keeps most of its original features, and it is a work of the Chattanooga firm Crutchfield & Law. It also served as the county's only seat of government and was funded in part by the PWA and WPA, supplementing a 1938 local bond referendum.","narrative":"Completed in 1939 in Ringgold, Georgia, the Catoosa County Courthouse is a symmetrical two-story brick building in the Colonial Revival style. It has a hipped roof, a cupola, a projecting pediment with paired Ionic pilasters, and limestone trim. Inside, crossing hallways have six-foot Georgia Cherokee marble wainscoting and terrazzo floors, and the courtroom keeps a stained-glass Palladian window and original wooden benches. The Chattanooga firm Crutchfield & Law designed it, and Barrett Construction Company of Dalton built it. It replaced an unsafe courthouse of the 1850s. Voters approved a $46,500 bond issue in 1938 to match a Public Works Administration grant, and the building opened on September 2, 1939, before roughly 1,000 people. It is considered significant for its architecture and for its role in county government as a New Deal-funded project. It remains in daily use as the county courthouse, joined by a 1980s justice building that is not part of the listing.","period_of_significance":"1939-1956","architect_builder":"Crutchfield and Law, architectural firm, Chattanooga, Tennessee (William Crutchfield and Halbert G. Law); Barrett Construction Company, contractor, Dalton, Georgia","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Remains in active use as the county courthouse; alterations are mostly minor.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.681912-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/06000844.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000844/d654495061-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000844/d654495061-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"KudzuVine","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catoosa_County_Courthouse,_Ringgold,_Georgia.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">KudzuVine</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catoosa_County_Courthouse,_Ringgold,_Georgia.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205918","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catoosa_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55606775"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/catoosa-county/catoosa-county-courthouse-06000844/"}