It was built about 1850, and is a temple-form structure with shallow gable roof, a two-story tetrastyle Greek Doric order portico and wooden hexagonal cupola.

Other notable buildings include the Central Hotel, First National Bank Building, Layman Insurance Agency building, Givens-McCartney House (1837), Caldwell-Berger-Lamb House (c. 1852), Bank of New Castle (c. 1900), Farmers and Merchants (F&M) Bank of Craig County (1917–1920), Wagener Brothers Store (c. 1890), Bill Caldwell General Store, George W. Craft (c. 1890), New Castle Methodist Episcopal Church (c. 1893), and Masonic Temple (1940).

[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, with a boundary increase in 1993.

[1] The original district comprised just five buildings — the courthouse and adjacent sheriff's residence, Layman Insurance, First National Bank, and the Central Hotel — while the expanded district includes 106 additional buildings, as well as two sites and an object.

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