The courthouse was built in 1914 to provide a larger space for county government, which had outgrown the previous courthouse built in 1849 and had begun to spread across multiple buildings.

The firm designed the courthouse in the Beaux-Arts style; their design features an arched entrance and windows on the first floor, pavilions with Tuscan columns on the upper two stories, and an entablature and balustrade along the roof.

[2] Public speeches were given by William J. Calhoun, James McMahon Graham, and J. Hamilton Lewis.

[2] The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1985.

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