Spalding County Courthouse

Collection:: Georgia County Courthouses
Title:: Spalding County Courthouse
Creator:: Seibert, David, 1941-2020
Contributor to Resource:: Bilbro & Spandler
Date of Original:: 1985
Subject:: Courthouses--Georgia--Spalding County
Courthouses--Georgia--Griffin
Location:: United States, Georgia, Spalding County, Griffin, 33.24678, -84.26409
Medium:: photographs
Type:: Still Image
Format:: image/jpeg
Description:: Courthouse Details: The act creating Spalding County directed that the courthouse be built in Griffin and authorized the county's inferior court to select the site. The Griffin City Hall served as Spalding County courthouse until 1859, when a two-story red brick building was completed. The steeple and clock tower were removed from the courthouse in 1910, when the building was converted into the county jail. A new two-story yellow brick courthouse, designed by A. Ten Eyck Brown,was completed in 1911. This building served until Jan. 12, 1981, when its interior was gutted by a fire believed to have started in the wiring. Though most of the records stored in the courthouse were saved, the damage was so severe that the building had to be torn down. Subsequently, the courthouse annex, which had been built across the street from the courthouse in the early 1970s, became the temporary courthouse. In the summer of 1981, contracted for the remodeling of a former A & P grocery store in Griffin for use by county courts and departments. This building served as Spalding County's temporary courthouse for four years. Meanwhile, construction of the current courthouse on the site of the former courthouse began. Construction of the current courthouse was completed in the summer of 1985, and in September, county courts and departments moved in.
External Identifiers:
Metadata URL:: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_gacoch_spalding-county-courthouse
Digital Object URL:: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_gacoch_spalding-county-courthouse
Holding Institution:: Digital Library of Georgia
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