{"nrhp_refnum":"80001100","name":"Jenkins County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millen","county":"Jenkins County","state":"GA","lat":32.80435375800005,"lon":-81.93911147199998,"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 three-story Neo-Classical brick county courthouse on a large public square in Millen, Jenkins County, Georgia, built in 1910 to designs by L. F. Goodrich, with A. J. Franklin as contractor.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of a 1910 Neo-Classical building, set on a huge square and topped by a sculpture of blind justice, a feature few Georgia courthouses have. It also notes that its Augusta-based architect designed the Taliaferro County courthouse and the clock towers on the Wilkinson and Burke County courthouses.","narrative":"Facing west across a large public square in Millen, this three-story brick courthouse was built in 1910 and designed by L. F. Goodrich, with A. J. Franklin as contractor. Its Neo-Classical design includes a tetrastyle entrance with plain fluted columns on high bases, a pediment with a lunette, one-story side porches with Ionic columns, and a bracketed cornice. A copper-colored domed clock tower rises above, topped by a sculpture of blind justice, though the scales are missing. Few Georgia courthouses carry sculpture. Inside, marble lines the dadoes and staircases, including a large grey veined marble newel post. The courtroom has a 20-foot pressed metal ceiling, tall windows with pilasters, an art nouveau chandelier with flower-shaped bulbs, and a convex balcony. The architect, based in Augusta, also designed the Taliaferro County courthouse and the clock towers on the Wilkinson and Burke County courthouses. It was listed as an excellent example of 1910 Neo-Classical design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect/builder L. F. Goodrich; contractor A. J. Franklin","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as poor in 1978 with some remodeling being considered; a later addendum verified structural soundness.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.920788-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001100.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001100/1c5c17e939-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001100/1c5c17e939-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jenkins_County_Courthouse,_Millen,_GA,_US_(02).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73</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:Jenkins_County_Courthouse,_Millen,_GA,_US_(02).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"96001340","name":"Downtown Millen Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/downtown-millen-historic-district-96001340/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206308","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16946996"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/jenkins-county/jenkins-county-courthouse-80001100/"}