{"nrhp_refnum":"79001747","name":"Richmond County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Franklin St. between Hancock and Lee Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rockingham","county":"Richmond County","state":"NC","lat":34.937645805000045,"lon":-79.77372527199998,"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 county courthouse in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina, on the edge of the town's commercial district at Main Street. It was built in 1922-23 to a design by Charles C. Hook of Charlotte, with J. P. Little and Son of Charlotte as contractor.","why_significant":"The document describes it as a stately Renaissance Revival building whose classical interior and exterior treatment reflect the quality of early twentieth-century public and commercial buildings in Rockingham. It is presented as part of a thematic group of North Carolina courthouses from the late nineteenth to the 1930s. The form links it to the county's growth and prosperity in that period.","narrative":"Built in 1922-23 on Main Street in Rockingham, the Richmond County Courthouse is a Renaissance Revival building faced in ashlar veneer. Its three-story central pavilion, with a hexastyle portico set between rusticated end bays, is flanked by two-story flat-roofed wings. Three entrances behind the portico are richly ornamented with guilloche bands and geometric transom grilles. The interior carries classical motifs through pilasters, a three-part dentil cornice, and iron-railed stairs rising to an antechamber open to the second floor. The second-floor courtrooms were modernized without losing their original character. The county commissioners authorized $20,000 in bonds for the building in 1921. Charles C. Hook of Charlotte designed it, and J. P. Little and Son of Charlotte built it. It is significant as a well-preserved example of the county's early twentieth-century public architecture and of the prosperity that produced it.","period_of_significance":"1922-1923","architect_builder":"Charles C. Hook (architect); J. P. Little and Son (contractor)","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.58738-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/7183/47718353/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001747.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001747/385529f2d3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001747/385529f2d3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mauser1488","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richmond_County_Court_House6.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Mauser1488</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:Richmond_County_Court_House6.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718353","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_County_Courthouse_(North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987810"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/richmond-county/richmond-county-courthouse-79001747/"}