{"nrhp_refnum":"80001105","name":"Liberty County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hinesville","county":"Liberty County","state":"GA","lat":31.847710750000033,"lon":-81.59551696599993,"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 brick Neoclassical county courthouse on Courthouse Square in Hinesville, Liberty County, Georgia. The original section was built in 1926 and lateral wings were added in the 1960s.","why_significant":"It is the third courthouse for Liberty County and a good example of the Neoclassical style popular in early twentieth-century Georgia courthouse architecture. It was designed by J.J. Baldwin, described as one of the most important courthouse architects in Georgia at the time. As a repository of marriage, will and land records, it chronicles the county's life.","narrative":"Liberty County's courthouse in Hinesville is a two-story brick building in the Neoclassical style, completed in 1926 on Courthouse Square. Its central section projects slightly at front and rear, and the front bay carries a two-story pedimented portico with Tuscan columns and an oculus window. A continuous cornice and brick parapet run around the roof, which is topped by a cupola with projecting columns, a clock and a dome. Lateral wings added in the 1960s more than doubled the building's size and were designed to resemble the original. The courthouse is the third to serve the county. It was designed by J.J. Baldwin, regarded as one of Georgia's leading courthouse architects of the period, and closely copies his Evans County Courthouse. It was listed as a good example of early twentieth-century Georgia courthouse design and as the place where county records of marriages, wills and land transactions are kept.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"J.J. Baldwin","architectural_style":"Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked as good; the courthouse is the seat of county government, with the county commission chairman listed at the building.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.431284-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001105.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001105/e95d894030-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001105/e95d894030-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"SuperMmeyers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liberty_County_Court_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">SuperMmeyers</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liberty_County_Court_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206318","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_County_Courthouse_(Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6541691"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/liberty-county/liberty-county-courthouse-80001105/"}