{"nrhp_refnum":"82004549","name":"Carroll County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"515 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hillsville","county":"Carroll County","state":"VA","lat":36.76626991200004,"lon":-80.73648954599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A county courthouse at 515 Main Street (U.S. Route 52) in Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia, built 1870-1875 by local builder Col. Ira B. Coltrane. It is the county's second courthouse.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the courthouse is architecturally significant for combining two traditional courthouse plans, the arcaded plan and the temple-portico plan, long after they had gone out of fashion. It also notes the building was the scene of the Hillsville courtroom shooting of March 14, 1912, in which five people, including the presiding judge, were killed.","narrative":"Built between 1870 and 1875 on Main Street in Hillsville, the Carroll County Courthouse was the county's second courthouse. Local builder Col. Ira B. Coltrane won the contract in 1871 and built it from a plan by Coltrane, Mitchell, Sutherland and Collier for $9,500. The design joins an arcaded ground floor with a two-story Doric portico, and paired stairs rise from the arches directly to the second-floor courtroom. A cupola crowns the gable roof. The nomination sees this blend of two early 19th-century courthouse types, associated with Jeffersonian builders in the Piedmont, as an old-fashioned choice for the 1870s. The building is also known for the courtroom violence of March 14, 1912, after Floyd Allen's conviction, when the judge, sheriff, Commonwealth's attorney, a juror and a spectator were killed. The building remains in government use, with later additions at the rear and north, a landscaped lawn, a Confederate memorial statue and its original wrought-iron gate.","period_of_significance":"1870-75","architect_builder":"Col. Ira Coltrane, Builder","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a courthouse; the clerk's office and county offices are on the first floor and the courtroom is on the second. The interior has been extensively altered, and a rear addition and an enlarged north wing have been added.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.123572-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/6799/41679979/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004549.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004549/925fcfe5aa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004549/925fcfe5aa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ceh2624","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CarrollCountyCourtFront.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ceh2624</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:CarrollCountyCourtFront.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679979","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_County_Courthouse_(Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5046535"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/carroll-county/carroll-county-courthouse-82004549/"}