{"nrhp_refnum":"79001725","name":"Hoke County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main and Edenborough Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raeford","county":"Hoke County","state":"NC","lat":34.980719315000044,"lon":-79.22170689799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story tan brick Neo-Classical Revival county courthouse in Raeford's business district, Hoke County, North Carolina, designed in 1911 and completed in 1912.","why_significant":"The courthouse was built for the newly formed Hoke County (created 1911) and has served continuously as its seat of government. It is a work of the architectural firm Milburn and Heister, who designed several North Carolina courthouses of the period. It is the most prominent building in Raeford in scale and design, and its second-floor courtroom remains remarkably unaltered.","narrative":"Hoke County was formed in 1911 from parts of Cumberland and Robeson counties, with Raeford named as county seat. Until a courthouse existed, the county rented a store building for public business, and early court terms reportedly met in the Raeford Institute auditorium. The commissioners hired the Washington, D.C., firm Milburn and Heister and issued $57,000 in bonds. J. A. Jones of Charlotte built the three-story tan brick structure, finished in 1912. It rests on a high ashlar base and has a tetrastyle pedimented Ionic portico, stone lintels and sills, and a modillion and dentil cornice under a hipped roof. Inside, halls cross at the center, and the second-floor courtroom keeps its coffered pressed tin ceiling, pilasters, wooden bench screen, multi-globe light fixtures and many original furnishings. Set in a landscaped square among one- and two-story commercial buildings, it dominates Raeford's downtown and remains in use as the county courthouse.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Milburn and Heister of Washington, D.C. (architects); J. A. Jones of Charlotte (contractor)","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Completed in 1912 and still in use as the county courthouse; the courtroom has remained remarkably unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.555608-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/7180/47718013/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001725.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001725/85fac405f8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001725/85fac405f8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HOKE_COUNTY_COURTHOUSE,_RAEFORD,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:HOKE_COUNTY_COURTHOUSE,_RAEFORD,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718013","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoke_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462358"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/hoke-county/hoke-county-courthouse-79001725/"}