{"nrhp_refnum":"88002843","name":"Guilford County Office and Court Building","other_names":["Old Courthouse Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"258 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"High Point","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":35.954018579000035,"lon":-80.00523560199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Art Moderne government building at 258 South Main Street (corner of Green Drive) in downtown High Point, North Carolina, designed in 1937 by local architects Louis F. Voorhees and Eccles D. Everhart and dedicated in January 1938.","why_significant":"The building is an excellent local example of Art Moderne design in governmental buildings of the late 1930s and anchors a cluster of Art Deco and Art Moderne buildings downtown. It is also tied to the long political rivalry between High Point and Greensboro over Guilford County government. It became the only site outside a county seat to host North Carolina Superior Court terms.","narrative":"Completed in 1938 at the corner of South Main Street and Green Drive in downtown High Point, this two-story brick building was designed by local architects Eccles D. Everhart and Louis F. Voorhees and built by R. K. Stewart & Son. Its symmetrical Flemish bond walls, concrete trim, vertical window strips and three tall pilasters show the Art Moderne style, with low-relief figures representing furniture, textiles and farming. It was built to give High Point a county office building after decades of rivalry with Greensboro, including failed 1911 and 1913 efforts to create a new county centered on High Point. In 1943 it became the first courthouse outside a county seat to host North Carolina Superior Court sessions. County offices and courts left in 1962, and a 1980 fire led to vacancy until a 1983 rehabilitation. It now serves as law offices, and original lobbies, stairs and terrazzo remain.","period_of_significance":"1937-1938","architect_builder":"Everhart, Eccles D. and Voorhees, Louis F.; R. K. Stewart and Son (contractors)","architectural_style":"Moderne (Art Moderne)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated after a 1980 interior fire and vacancy from 1980 to 1983; now used for law offices, with the basement housing the High Point Convention and Visitors Bureau.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.008691-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7205/47720590/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88002843.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002843/e889b21d63-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002843/e889b21d63-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guilford_County_Office_and_Court_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guilford_County_Office_and_Court_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720590","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilford_County_Office_and_Court_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18706147"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/guilford-county-office-and-court-building-88002843/"}