{"nrhp_refnum":"74002110","name":"Brunswick County Courthouse Square","other_names":["Vdhr # 251-0001","Albertis S. Harrison Courthouse"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"202, 216, 228, 234 North Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lawrenceville","county":"Brunswick County","state":"VA","lat":36.75847211800004,"lon":-77.84666587099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-acre (later documented as about 1.55 acres) courthouse square district in Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia, centered on an 1854-55 Greek Revival brick courthouse with a clerk's office, library, jail and Confederate monument.","why_significant":"The original nomination called the square the epitome of a nineteenth-century Virginia shire town, with a harmonious group of public buildings at the center of village life. The county records were also spared during the Civil War because of Masonic ties between the builder and a Union raider. The 2010 update adds Architecture and Political/Government as areas of significance under Criteria A and C.","narrative":"Lawrenceville's courthouse square in Brunswick County, Virginia, groups several public buildings around a lawn on the town's main street. The centerpiece is the 1854-55 courthouse, a two-story brick Greek Revival building by Edward R. Turnbull and Robert Kirkland, with a pedimented portico of four Doric columns and a small cupola. A rear addition in 1939 gave it a T-shaped plan. Beside it stands the brick clerk's office of 1893, built when county records outgrew the courthouse. A library, a jail and a Confederate monument complete the square, and a newer courthouse was added in 1998. The county seat was established here in 1814 after the courthouse had moved several times as county boundaries changed. The square was listed as a typical nineteenth-century Virginia shire town center, and its records survived the Civil War through a Masonic connection between Turnbull and a Union raider.","period_of_significance":"1854 to 1959","architect_builder":"Edward R. Turnbull; Robert Kirkland; Marion J. Dimmock; William Moseley; Browne, Eichman, Dalgliesh, Gilpin and Paxton P.C.","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Romanesque, Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The 1974 form rates condition as excellent but altered, and the 2010 update says the 1854 courthouse is partly used for county offices while a new courthouse was built in 1998.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.743529-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/6798/41679873/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/74002110.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"00000313","name":"Lawrenceville Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/lawrenceville-historic-district-additional-documentation-00000313/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679873","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_County_Courthouse_Square","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712093"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/brunswick-county/brunswick-county-courthouse-square-74002110/"}