{"nrhp_refnum":"79001739","name":"Nash County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Washington St. between Drake and N. Court Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nashville","county":"Nash County","state":"NC","lat":35.976256259000024,"lon":-77.96749442399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick county courthouse in the center of Nashville's commercial district, Nash County, North Carolina, built in 1921 to designs by architect J. C. Stout.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the building as an important early and rare example of Colonial Revival public architecture in North Carolina, at a time when courthouses of the period were mostly Neo-Classical. Its Federal-style ornament and well-preserved courtroom set it apart from the small-town surroundings. It is also the latest in a line of courthouses on the county seat dating to 1778.","narrative":"Nash County Courthouse is a two-story brick building in the middle of Nashville's commercial district. It was completed in 1921 from designs by architect J. C. Stout, after county commissioners authorized $180,000 in bonds in 1920. It replaced earlier courthouses, the first of them a temporary structure raised in 1778 when the county was formed from Edgecombe. The T-shaped building has a temple-form main block with small brick wings and a full-height pedimented portico. Swags and urns decorate the window spandrels and the pediment, recalling the Federal style of the post-Revolutionary era. Inside, curved stairs rise at both ends of a transverse hall, and the courtroom has restrained classical woodwork, a full entablature, a panel depicting blind justice, and Ten Commandments tablets behind the bench. Most courthouses of its era in North Carolina followed Neo-Classical models, so this Colonial Revival design is considered an early and rare example. Later additions and a 1974 interior remodeling kept the original character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"J. C. Stout (architect)","architectural_style":"Federal Revival / Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Several additions have been made, and the interior was remodeled in 1974 in a way described as sympathetic to the original character. The county commissioners' chairman is listed as the contact, indicating county use, but current use is not otherwise stated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.030593-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7182/47718275/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001739.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001739/8861610bff-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001739/8861610bff-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nash_County_Courthouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nash_County_Courthouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87001185","name":"Nashville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/nashville-historic-district-87001185/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718275","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987272"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/nash-county/nash-county-courthouse-79001739/"}