- Collection:
- Georgia County Courthouses
- Title:
- Gwinnett County Courthouse
- Creator:
- Henningson, Durham & Richardson, Architects Plus
- Date of Original:
- 1988
- Subject:
- Courthouses--Georgia--Gwinnett County
Courthouses--Georgia--Lawrenceville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Lawrenceville, 33.95621, -83.98796
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Architecture Style: Modern
Courthouse Details: Soon after its creation, Gwinnett County had a series of three temporary courthouses. In 1819, Elisha Winn, who lived in Hog Mountain, allowed the county to use his house and barn as a courthouse. For a year, inferior court and county elections were held in Winn's house, while superior court met in his barn (near which a small jail was built). In 1820, Isham Williams built a log courthouse on land he owned (Land Lot 143, located near present-day Lawrenceville). When Williams and the county could not agree on a purchase price for the land, Elisha Winn bought the 250 acres comprising Land Lot 146, where a second log courthouse was built on the site that would become Lawrenceville. In 1824, the second log courthouse was replaced by a brick structure. In 1856, the legislature authorized Gwinnett County to levy a special tax to erect a new courthouse -- but apparently nothing was done. The 1824 courthouse burned in 1871, and that December the legislature authorized Gwinnett County to borrow up to $8,000 to build another courthouse, which was completed in 1872. This new building, however, was widely criticized over its construction, and in 1884 was torn down and replaced by the two-story brick courthouse that still stands today in downtown Lawrenceville. The 1970s and '80s were decades of substantial population growth in Gwinnett County, necessitating the creation of additional superior court judgeships. By the early 1980s, Gwinnett's courthouse was so crowded that a superior court judge ordered the county commission to build a new and larger facility. In 1988, construction was completed on a new Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center that serves as courthouse and multi-purpose county government center. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_gwinnett-county-courthouse
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_gwinnett-county-courthouse
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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