Burke County Courthouse, Waynesboro, GA
**Burke County Courthouse** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 80000980, date listed 9/18/1980
Courthouse Sq.
Waynesboro, GA (Burke County)
Date of Construction: 1857
Built of red brick covered with a red cement-looking mixture (gritty in texture) and scored to look like very perfect brick, this structure exemplifies an evolution of styles. The original courthouse is a carpenter Romanesque style with a round arched entry surmounted by tiny panes of glass in the transom. Above this, on the second floor, are arched triplet windows. A brick stringcourse encircles the building at the second floor level. Stone is used as a water table and as trim around the windows. At the roof line are square brackets. On the northwest corner, the Victorian clock tower rises in five stages culminating in a pyramidal cap and pedimented clocks. A street sign is actually affixed to the tower on the ground floor. A neo-classical annex was constructed at the rear of the building and joined to it by an open bridge on both levels in 1940.
The cement-looking finish that is scored to look like perfect brick is on the 1857 and 1900 portions of the building. This is not found on any other Georgia courthouse, but is on the Hay House in Macon, Georgia (A National Historic Landmark). (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...
Burke County Courthouse, Waynesboro, GA
**Burke County Courthouse** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 80000980, date listed 9/18/1980
Courthouse Sq.
Waynesboro, GA (Burke County)
Date of Construction: 1857
Built of red brick covered with a red cement-looking mixture (gritty in texture) and scored to look like very perfect brick, this structure exemplifies an evolution of styles. The original courthouse is a carpenter Romanesque style with a round arched entry surmounted by tiny panes of glass in the transom. Above this, on the second floor, are arched triplet windows. A brick stringcourse encircles the building at the second floor level. Stone is used as a water table and as trim around the windows. At the roof line are square brackets. On the northwest corner, the Victorian clock tower rises in five stages culminating in a pyramidal cap and pedimented clocks. A street sign is actually affixed to the tower on the ground floor. A neo-classical annex was constructed at the rear of the building and joined to it by an open bridge on both levels in 1940.
The cement-looking finish that is scored to look like perfect brick is on the 1857 and 1900 portions of the building. This is not found on any other Georgia courthouse, but is on the Hay House in Macon, Georgia (A National Historic Landmark). (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...