{"nrhp_refnum":"80000967","name":"Bacon County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alma","county":"Bacon County","state":"GA","lat":31.54127311800005,"lon":-82.46262562299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Economics","Politics/Government","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bacon County Courthouse is a brick Neo-Classical county courthouse on Main Street in Alma, Georgia, built in 1919 to a design by J. J. Baldwin, with R. W. Wimbish as contractor.","why_significant":"The nomination refers to the general statement of significance on architect J. J. Baldwin. It also notes that this is one of only two courthouses in Georgia whose main entrance faces the corner of a block. The other is the Morgan County courthouse in Madison.","narrative":"Completed in 1919 on Main Street in Alma, Georgia, this brick courthouse was designed by J. J. Baldwin and built by contractor R. W. Wimbish. Its Neo-Classical design places the entrance at a corner of the block, with a Corinthian tetrastyle portico, a full entablature and a pediment. Brick quoins mark the facade, and round-arched second-floor windows carry emphasized keystones. The windows have small panes and rectangular transoms. A clock tower rises in three stages and ends in a small dome topped by an urn finial. Inside, the elevated courtroom has a gallery on three sides reached by two sets of stairs, old theater seats on both levels, and beams that divide the ceiling into nine recessed areas. The building is notable as one of only two courthouses in Georgia with a main entrance facing a block corner, the other being in Madison, Morgan County. It is also tied to the work of architect J. J. Baldwin. Its condition is described as fair.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"J. J. Baldwin (architect); R. W. Wimbish (contractor)","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked as fair. The county commissioners, as owners, supported the nomination.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.375206-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80000967.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000967/fcd101e458-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000967/fcd101e458-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacon_County_Courthouse,_Alma,_GA,_US.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (Jud McCranie)</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:Bacon_County_Courthouse,_Alma,_GA,_US.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205826","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16163418"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bacon-county/bacon-county-courthouse-80000967/"}