{"nrhp_refnum":"80000988","name":"Chattooga County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Summerville","county":"Chattooga County","state":"GA","lat":34.48043828200008,"lon":-85.34856193199994,"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 Neo-Classical county courthouse on Courthouse Square in Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia, built in 1909 by the Bryan Architectural Firm with Falls City Construction Co. of St. Louis as contractor.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as one of the finest buildings in Chattooga County. It faces the town's main street and serves as an architectural focal point for Summerville. It is listed as part of a thematic group of Georgia courthouses.","narrative":"Chattooga County's courthouse, built in 1909 on Courthouse Square in Summerville, is a Neo-Classical building designed by the Bryan Architectural Firm and constructed by Falls City Construction Co. of St. Louis at a cost of $50,000 to $60,000. Its granite-faced masonry walls carry three pedimented entrances with Corinthian tetrastyle porticoes, plus a simpler side entrance with four Corinthian pilasters. Pavilions project from a central core, and a domed clock tower with a lantern rises in three stages. An iron fence surrounds the grounds. Inside, original wooden doors remain, and marble wainscoting lines the first-floor hall. The courtroom has been altered, with a lowered ceiling and an enclosed balcony, but an arched stained glass window behind the bench still reads \"wisdom, justice and moderation.\" The building was listed as one of the finest in the county and as a focal point of Summerville, facing the town's main street.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Bryan Architectural Firm; contractor Falls City Construction Co., St. Louis, Mo.","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is rated fair. The form notes a non-historic jail within the boundary and an altered courtroom with a lowered ceiling and an enclosed balcony.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:39.981946-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80000988.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000988/8947e3338e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000988/8947e3338e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"R Paul Maloney","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courthouse_at_Summerville,_GA_001.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">R Paul Maloney</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:Courthouse_at_Summerville,_GA_001.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000280","name":"Summerville Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/summerville-commercial-historic-district-12000280/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205924","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattooga_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55607163"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/chattooga-county/chattooga-county-courthouse-80000988/"}