| Chatham County Courthouse | |
| Nrhp Type: | cp |
| Nocat: | yes |
| Location: | NC 15-501 and Highway 64, Pittsboro, North Carolina |
| Coordinates: | 35.7203°N -79.1772°W |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Marker: | building |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 12 |
| Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map showing the location of Chatham County Courthouse |
| Built: | 1881 |
| Architecture: | Late Victorian |
| Added: | May 10, 1979 |
| Refnum: | 79001691 |
The Chatham County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina. It sits at the center of town in the middle of a traffic circle. It was built in 1881 for $10,666 and is a two-story rectangular brick structurein the Late Victorian style. It features a two-story classical portico crowned with a distinctive three-stage cupola. A one-story addition was built in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. In 1959, extensive renovations were performed on the building.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Pittsboro Historic District.
A fire on March 24, 2010, did great damage to the building which was in the midst of another renovation.[2] [3] The restored building reopened April 20, 2013 with an exhibit covering Chatham County history on the first floor and a courtroom on the second.[4]
In 1907, the county gave a license to the United Daughters of the Confederacy to place a statue of a Confederate soldier outside the courthouse. In 2019, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners voted to rescind this license, and the statue was removed as part of the trend toward removal of Confederate monuments and memorials in the 2010s.[5] [6]