| Halifax County Courthouse | |
| Nrhp Type: | cp |
| Nocat: | yes |
| Location: | 44 King Street, Halifax, North Carolina |
| Coordinates: | 36.3308°N -77.5894°W |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Marker: | building |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 12 |
| Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map showing the location of Halifax County Courthouse |
| Built: | 1850 |
| Architect: | Wheeler & Stern |
| Architecture: | Classical Revival, Late Victorian |
| Added: | May 10, 1979 |
| Mpsub: | North Carolina County Courthouses TR |
| Refnum: | 79001719 |
Halifax County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was designed by architects Wheeler & Stern and built in 1909–1910. It is a three-story, tan brick, Classical Revival style building. It has a tetrastyle Corinthian order portico flanked by two-story flat roofed wings and a two-stage cupola atop a shallow mansard roof.[1]
The first Halifax county courthouse was built in 1759.[2] In 1847, the first courthouse was replaced by a second, which itself was replaced in 1910 by a third courthouse erected on the site of the second courthouse.[2] The 1910 courthouse was the present courthouse in 1938,[2] the same year the famed 1938 photo of the drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn was taken. A stone marker currently stands on the courthouse lawn where the photographed drinking fountain resided.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.