Georgetown Historic District

Georgetown's historic district occupies the downtown square of the Brown County seat in southern Ohio. At its center is the brick courthouse, completed in 1851 to designs by Hubbard Baker, a Greek Revival building with Doric columns and a recessed portico. It is described as the oldest Greek Revival courthouse still standing in the state. A fire in June 1977 destroyed the tower and part of the roof, and local citizens were raising funds for restoration. Around the square, the west side holds a late Victorian commercial row with bracketed cornices, cast iron columns and pressed tin fronts. The east side has colonial row houses built between 1826 and 1855, including a Masonic lodge from 1846 and a former schoolhouse. One small brick building was a school attended by Ulysses S. Grant. The town also supplied thirteen Union generals during the Civil War. Together the buildings show a century of architectural change in a largely intact county-seat downtown.