Brunswick County Courthouse Square is a historic county

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complex and national

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located at Lawrenceville,

Brunswick County, Virginia Brunswick County is a United States county located on the southern border of the Commonwealth of Virginia. This rural county is known as one of the claimants to be the namesake of Brunswick stew. Brunswick County was created in 1720 from parts ...

. It encompasses four contributing buildings and two contributing objects. They are the courthouse building, a clerk's office, library, jail, Confederate war monument, and a simple granite slab monument commemorating the county's veterans of World War I to the Vietnam War. Together they constitute a classic Southern courthouse square. The courthouse was built in 1854–55, as a two-story, gable-roofed rectangular brick building in the

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style. In 1939, a rear brick addition was completed, creating a T-shaped plan. The clerk's office is a two-story brick building built in 1893, with rear additions built in 1924 and 1939. The library was built in 1941., , an
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in 1974. It is located in the

Lawrenceville Historic District Lawrenceville Historic District is a national historic district located at Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia. It encompasses 326 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 3 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the ce ...

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County courthouses in Virginia Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Government buildings completed in 1855 Buildings and structures in Brunswick County, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Brunswick County, Virginia Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia {{BrunswickCountyVA-NRHP-stub