{"nrhp_refnum":"80001122","name":"Montgomery County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Courthouse Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mounty Vernon","county":"Montgomery County","state":"GA","lat":32.17428151400003,"lon":-82.59472251599999,"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":"Two-story Neo-Classical county courthouse on Courthouse Square in Mount Vernon, Montgomery County, Georgia, built in 1907 to designs by Alexander Blair.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the courthouse as the center of local government, a focal point for political information and the safekeeping of vital statistics and official records. It also calls it the finest building, architecturally, in the Mount Vernon area.","narrative":"Montgomery County's courthouse in Mount Vernon, Georgia, was built in 1907 at a cost of $36,480. Alexander Blair is named as architect, and J. H. McKenzie & Sons served as contractor. It is the third courthouse built in the town. The two-story Neo-Classical building is faced in red and cream brick with granite and limestone trim. It has a Doric tetrastyle portico, projecting corner pavilions with brick quoins, and varied window treatments including stepped and bracketed flat arches and round arches. An octagonal dome with a lantern rises in four stages, with hooded clocks facing four directions. Inside, the pale green courtroom keeps its balcony, benches and mantels, Corinthian pilasters with gold capitals, a pressed metal ceiling and beaded board wainscoting. The nomination values the building as the seat of local government and as the finest architecture in the Mount Vernon area. Its condition was rated poor, and renovation began in 1979.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect/builder Alexander Blair; contractor J. H. McKenzie & Sons","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked poor on the survey form; some renovation was begun in 1979.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.130921-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001122.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001122/70f310e5f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001122/70f310e5f9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Calvin Beale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montgomery_County_Georgia_Couthouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Calvin Beale</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montgomery_County_Georgia_Couthouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206384","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_County_Courthouse_(Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16943725"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/montgomery-county/montgomery-county-courthouse-80001122/"}