Cumberland County Courthouse (Virginia) Explained

Cumberland County Courthouse
Nrhp Type:cp
Nocat:yes
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:August 17, 1994, May 15, 2007[1]
Designated Other1 Number:024-0005
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:US 60, N side, at jct. with VA 600, Cumberland, Virginia
Coordinates:37.4986°N -78.2447°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:building
Mapframe-Zoom:12
Mapframe-Caption:Interactive map showing the location of Cumberland County Courthouse
Built:1818
Architect:Howard, William A.
Architecture:Early Republic, Early Classical Revival
Added:September 30, 1994
Refnum:94001178

The Cumberland County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Cumberland, Cumberland County, Virginia. It was built by Dabney Cosby (c. 1793-August, 1862), a master builder for Thomas Jefferson, in 1818. It is a brick, one-story, rectangular, gable-roofed courthouse. The building features the Tuscan order throughout and a tetrastyle portico. Also included are the contributing small, brick, one-story clerks office; the brick, two-story, gable-roofed former jail; and Confederate Civil War monument (1901).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It is included in the Cumberland Court House Historic District

External links

3 photos and 2 photo caption pages at Historic American Buildings Survey

1 photo at Historic American Buildings Survey

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cumberland County Courthouse . Marc C. Wagner. April 1994. Virginia Department of Historic Resources., Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cumberland County Courthouse . Jean McKae. May 2007. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo