{"nrhp_refnum":"80001089","name":"Harris County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamilton","county":"Harris County","state":"GA","lat":32.75878702800003,"lon":-84.87472553199996,"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 two-story Neo-Classical county courthouse on Courthouse Square in Hamilton, Harris County, Georgia, built in 1908 for about $35,000 and designed by Ed C. Hosford.","why_significant":"The courthouse is significant as the repository of the county's records of marriages, wills, land transactions and road construction. The nomination presents it as a chronicle of the county and a focal point in the life of every citizen. It was nominated as part of a thematic group of Georgia courthouses.","narrative":"Harris County's courthouse in Hamilton is a two-story Neo-Classical building completed in 1908 at a cost of $35,000. Ed C. Hosford is named as architect and builder, and Mutual Construction Co. served as contractor. The facade is a Doric hexastyle design with a full entablature and a pediment holding a semi-circular light. An entry porch has pressed metal ceilings and a four-bay balcony that engages the columns, colossal pilasters mark the corners, and rectangular windows have stone lintels. Inside, the courtroom has a lowered ceiling with acoustical tile added, an open balcony and a plain bench. Plaster walls and asbestos tile and terrazzo floors are used throughout. The building rests on a brick and stone foundation on a site of less than one acre, shared only with a non-historic 1936 jail. Its importance rests on its role as keeper of county records, including marriages, wills, land transactions and road construction, making it a focal point of civic life.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ed C. Hosford (architect/builder); Mutual Construction Co. (contractor)","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is rated good; the only other building on the site is a non-historic 1936 jail.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.560839-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001089.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001089/b98361d88d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001089/b98361d88d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harris_County_Georgia_Courthouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; SaveRivers</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:Harris_County_Georgia_Courthouse.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206228","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_County_Courthouse_(Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5664835"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/harris-county/harris-county-courthouse-80001089/"}