{"nrhp_refnum":"79001761","name":"Washington County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main and Adams Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Plymouth","county":"Washington County","state":"NC","lat":35.86671576100008,"lon":-76.74877907099994,"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 brick Neo-Classical county courthouse in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, built in 1918-19 and designed by Benton and Benton. It sits on a small corner lot between Plymouth's residential and commercial areas.","why_significant":"The courthouse is described as a well designed and constructed building whose Neo-Classical style, harmonious materials and landscaped site make it a transitional element between commercial and residential Plymouth. It also continues a line of county courthouses on the site after earlier wooden ones were destroyed. It was listed as part of a thematic group of North Carolina courthouses.","narrative":"Washington County Courthouse in Plymouth, North Carolina, was built in 1918-19 to designs by Benton and Benton. The three-story brick building houses county offices, courtrooms and jail facilities under one roof. A monumental tetrastyle Ionic portico fronts the building, and its classicism comes mainly from that portico, the entrance and heavy stone trim. The main entrance has a pedimented overdoor on consoles, and the second-story windows under the portico have tall round arches filled with classical grillwork. The interior is plain, with poured concrete floors and rough plaster walls on the first floor, a remodeled courtroom on the second, and the jail on the third. Earlier courthouses in the county, beginning with a wooden one at Lee's Mill, were lost to war and fire. The present building is larger than its neighbors but acts as a transition between Plymouth's commercial and residential areas, helped by its materials and landscaped site.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Benton and Benton","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in need of repair and brightening through better lighting and repainting of public areas; the second-floor courtroom has been remodeled.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.607753-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/7186/47718693/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001761.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001761/3ddcc993e6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001761/3ddcc993e6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_County_Courthouse,_Plymouth.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_County_Courthouse,_Plymouth.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"90002140","name":"Plymouth Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/plymouth-historic-district-90002140/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718693","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County_Courthouse_(North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20679857"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/washington-county/washington-county-courthouse-79001761/"}