{"nrhp_refnum":"80000976","name":"Brooks County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quitman","county":"Brooks County","state":"GA","lat":30.78569684400003,"lon":-83.56006292599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Economics","Law","Politics/Government","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A county courthouse on Courthouse Square in Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, built in 1859 to designs by John Wind with Charles H. Remington as contractor, and expanded in 1892, 1967-68 and 1974.","why_significant":"It is one of several 1850s courthouses in Georgia still used as a courthouse. Its original core has been kept and the building still reads as a unified whole despite additions. The 1892 facade by Bruce & Morgan is called extraordinary for bringing Italian Renaissance influence to Georgia only about ten years after McKim, Mead and White's Villard Houses in New York.","narrative":"Brooks County Courthouse stands on a two-acre block at Courthouse Square in Quitman, Georgia. Built in 1859 for $14,985 from designs by English-born architect John Wind, who also designed the Thomas County Courthouse, it has been enlarged several times. In 1892 Bruce & Morgan added a new entrance facade and rear annex, and a further addition followed in 1974. The two-and-a-half-story brick and stone building has arched entrance portals in a projecting pavilion, pedimented windows with foliate decoration, quoins, a bracketed cornice and colossal pilasters at the ends of the front wings. A clock tower rises from a square base at the center. The courtroom upstairs has been altered, though some small colored glass panes remain. The courthouse matters as one of several 1850s Georgia courthouses still serving their original purpose, with its early core intact and an 1892 Italian Renaissance-influenced facade that arrived in Georgia remarkably soon after the style appeared in New York.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Wind (architect); Charles H. Remington (contractor); 1892 additions by Bruce & Morgan (contractor James Smith); 1974 addition by Arthur Smith (contractor Howard Ray Construction Co.)","architectural_style":"Romanesque entrance, Renaissance Revival detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a courthouse; exterior condition listed as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.670258-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80000976.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000976/08ae51d87c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000976/08ae51d87c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Ebyabe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quitman_GA_crths_memorial_spano01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebyabe</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quitman_GA_crths_memorial_spano01.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82002388","name":"Quitman Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/quitman-historic-district-82002388/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205864","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_County_Courthouse_(Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4974988"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/brooks-county/brooks-county-courthouse-80000976/"}