Famed architect Frank Pierce Milburn was asked in 1903 to design the new courthouse, but the county commissioners rejected his design and instead hired Englishman Richard Sharp Smith, who was the resident architect of the Biltmore Estate after the death of Richard Morris Hunt in 1895.

Construction by local builder W. F. Edwards began in 1904 and was completed in July, 1905.

The restored 1905 courthouse currently houses the Henderson County Heritage Museum and some government offices.

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