{"nrhp_refnum":"80001263","name":"Wheeler County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Pearl St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alamo","county":"Wheeler County","state":"GA","lat":32.14804982800007,"lon":-82.78224153699995,"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 Pearl Street in Alamo, Wheeler County, Georgia, built in 1917. The architect and builder are not named in the form.","why_significant":"The courthouse is presented as a fine example of the Neoclassical style popular in Georgia in the early twentieth century. It is notable for its monumental appearance, achieved through proportioning and stepped massing, and for its unusually elaborate Corinthian stone columns, corner pilasters and stone parapets. As a repository of marriage, will and land records, it also chronicles the county and is a focal point of civic life.","narrative":"Wheeler County's courthouse in Alamo, Georgia, was built in 1917 on Pearl Street and remains a landmark of the town. Two stories high and roughly rectangular, it rises in a stepped, pyramid-like mass. A central square section projects slightly at front and rear and is topped by a high stone parapet and a hipped roof with a secondary parapet. Pedimented porticoes on the front and ends each carry four elaborate Corinthian stone columns. Brick pilasters mark every exterior corner, cornices at two levels wrap the building, and light-colored spandrel panels contrast with the dark brick walls. Inside, the ground floor follows a T-shaped plan. The courthouse was recognized as a fine example of early twentieth-century Neoclassical architecture in Georgia, valued for its monumental character and its relatively lavish ornament. It also holds the county's records of marriages, wills and land transactions, making it a focal point of local life. Its condition is described as good.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked as good; the courthouse is the county's seat of government, with the Wheeler County Commission using the building as its address.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.694572-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/80001263.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001263/546ec1c383-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001263/546ec1c383-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Calvin Beale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wheeler_County_Georgia_Courthouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Calvin Beale</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wheeler_County_Georgia_Courthouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206720","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903184"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/wheeler-county/wheeler-county-courthouse-80001263/"}