Louisa County Courthouse | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | April 17, 1990[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 254-0051 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | Jct. of Main St. and VA 208, Louisa, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 38.0244°N -78.0042°W |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Marker: | building |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 12 |
Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map showing the location of Louisa County Courthouse |
Built: | , 1868, 1905, 1917 |
Architect: | Anderson, D. Wiley |
Architecture: | Classical Revival |
Added: | December 28, 1990 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 90001998 |
Louisa County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Louisa, Louisa County, Virginia. It was designed by architect D. Wiley Anderson from Richmond and built in 1905. It is a two-story, five-bay, porticoed Classical Revival brick structure. It measures 59 feet wide and 63 feet deep and features a pedimented portico supported by four Ionic order columns. It has a modified hipped roof topped by an octagonal drum, dome and lantern. Associated with the courthouse is the contributing old jail built in 1818, and rebuilt in 1868 after a fire; the Crank Building (1830); R. Earl Ogg Memorial Building (1917); and a Civil War monument.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.