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Scott County Courthouse

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1829, James Toncray, builder; 1920s, 1940s alterations; 1968 addition and remodeling, Milton P. Robelot. W. Jackson St. at Manville Rd.
  • (Photograph by Tim Buchman)

Gate City's most prominent building, the Scott County Courthouse dominates the commercial area of Jackson Street. Erected by a builder of courthouses in Grayson (GY7), Wythe, Montgomery, and Floyd counties, it is one of only two Toncray courthouses to survive. Like his other courthouses, the Scott County courthouse has a two-story, Flemish bond brick central block flanked by slightly receding two-story brick wings, each originally with an entrance and window on the first story and two windows on the second. The building is crowned by an octagonal bellcast-roofed cupola with arched louvered vents and a ball finial. Dating to the 1920s are the remodeled entrance and the two-story Corinthian portico with a Palladian window in its pediment. Entirely unsympathetic to the courthouse are later twentieth-century additions that include a two-story brick structure (1940s) to the left and a brick addition (1968) to the right. Remodeling of the courthouse's interior has left little original fabric untouched.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Scott County Courthouse", [Gate City, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-SC1.

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, 497-497.

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