Rockingham County Courthouse | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | July 20, 1982[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 115-0002 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | Courthouse Square, Harrisonburg, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 38.4494°N -78.8694°W |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Marker: | building |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 12 |
Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map showing the location of Rockingham County Courthouse |
Built: | -1897 |
Architect: | Collins, T.J. |
Builder: | Spiers, W.E. |
Architecture: | Renaissance, Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque |
Added: | September 16, 1982 |
Refnum: | 82004566 |
Rockingham County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was designed by T.J. Collins (1844–1925) and built in 1896–1897. The courthouse is a 3 1/2-story building of coursed rusticated ashlar above a raised basement. It has a tile covered hipped roof with a molded cornice with dentilwork above a plain frieze. The building has elements of the Richardsonian Romanesque and Romanesque Revival styles. It has a projecting central pavilion with a two-stage clock tower. Fronting the pavilion is a triple arched portico on the first story formed by slender columns set on square pedestals with a heavy stone balustrade above. It is the fifth courthouse to stand on the site since Rockingham was formed from Augusta County, Virginia in 1778.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.