{"nrhp_refnum":"80001003","name":"Colquitt County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Moultrie","county":"Colquitt County","state":"GA","lat":31.179415603000052,"lon":-83.78816041699997,"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 Moultrie, Colquitt County, Georgia, built in 1902 with brick walls and limestone columns on a four-acre square.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of adding a mezzanine floor to a courthouse without changing the exterior's character. Many original interior elements were kept, including the heavy roof trusses over the courtroom. The building also dominates the town as an architectural and economic focal point.","narrative":"Colquitt County's courthouse, completed in 1902 on the square in Moultrie, is a brick Neo-Classical building with limestone columns. Its cross plan has four Corinthian tetrastyle entrances opening onto a 12-foot-wide cross corridor, and a clock tower with a bell-shaped dome, bull's-eye windows and a knobbed lantern shows clocks in four directions. A. J. Bryan & Co. was the architect and builder; J. H. Harris began the construction and G.W. Milligan finished it. The first contract was $19,250, and the cost at completion was $27,000. In 1956 Wilhoit & Smith reworked the interior, adding a mezzanine floor, with Barber Bros. as contractors. The changes left the exterior's character intact and kept pink marble corridors, heavy timber trusses supporting the dome, and walnut-stained birch paneling in the courtroom. Acoustical tile was set between the existing beams to preserve the original ceiling effect. The courthouse dominates the town as an architectural and economic focal point.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"A. J. Bryan & Co.; contractors J. H. Harris (begun) and G.W. Milligan (finished); 1956 alterations by Wilhoit & Smith with Barber Bros., Contractors","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent; the 1956 renovation reworked the interior and added a mezzanine.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.461792-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001003.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001003/1209443254-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001003/1209443254-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"John Trainor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colquitt_County_Courthouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Trainor</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colquitt_County_Courthouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94000543","name":"Moultrie Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/moultrie-commercial-historic-district-94000543/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205948","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colquitt_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5149354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/colquitt-county/colquitt-county-courthouse-80001003/"}