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Lee County Courthouse

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1933–1935, D. R. Beeson; V. L. Nicholson Company, builders; 1978 addition, Beeson, Lusk and Jones. 33640 Main St.
  • (Photograph by Tim Buchman)

The Lee County Courthouse is the most architecturally sophisticated building in the county. Built during the early years of the Great Depression, the two-story buff brick courthouse is in the severe version of neoclassicism popular during the 1930s. Dominating the facade is a two-story cast-concrete Doric portico that shelters a central entrance framed by Doric pilasters and supports a brick parapet decorated with geometric motifs. A concrete frieze and cornice wrap the building below the parapet. The brick addition of 1978, more austere with plain brick walls and a deep roof overhang, is awkwardly attached to the earlier building.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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What's Nearby

J. A. G. Hyatt House
Lee County Board of Education Office Complex (Jonesville Institute)
Dickinson-Milbourn House
Judge James Wesley Orr House
Jonesville Methodist Campground Auditorium

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Lee County Courthouse", [Jonesville, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-LE1.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Virginia vol 2

Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 512-512.

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