Halifax County Courthouse (North Carolina)

{{short description|Historic courthouse North Carolina, US}}

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| name = Halifax County Courthouse

| nrhp_type = cp

| nocat = yes

| image = Halifax County Courthouse NC.jpg

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| location = 44 King Street, Halifax, North Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|36|19|51|N|77|35|22|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = North Carolina#USA

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-marker = building

| mapframe-zoom = 12

| mapframe-caption = Interactive map showing the location of Halifax County Courthouse

| area =

| built = 1850

| architect = Wheeler & Stern

| architecture = Classical Revival, Late Victorian

| added = May 10, 1979

| mpsub = North Carolina County Courthouses TR

| refnum = 79001719{{NRISref|2009a}}

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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.{{Cite web | author=Mary Ann Lee and Joe Mobley| title=North Carolina County Courthouses TR: Halifax County Courthouse| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date =n.d.| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/HX0003.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2014-11-01}}

The first Halifax county courthouse was built in 1759.{{cite book|title=The historical records of North Carolina|last=Crittenden|first=Charles Christopher|date=1938|volume=2|pages=235|publisher=The North Carolina Historical Commission|accessdate=10 May 2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=%221847.+Second+courthouse+demolished+and%22}} 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. The 1910 courthouse was the present courthouse in 1938, 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.

Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina.jpg|Drinking fountain on the Halifax County Courthouse lawn, April 1938 (Farm Security Administration photograph by John Vachon)