Designed by the Louisville, Kentucky architectural firm of Kenneth McDonald & Co. together with self-taught Georgia architect J. W. Golucke, who is said to have designed 27 courthouses in Georgia and four in Alabama, it is Bartow County's third courthouse and the second one built in Cartersville.

It proved to be unsatisfactory because court proceedings had to be halted while trains passed by on the nearby railroad.

In 1992 a courthouse annex known as the Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Center was completed.

[2][3][4] On September 18, 1980, the 1902 courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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