The Charlotte County Courthouse is a historic county

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complex located at Charlotte Court House,

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. It was built in 1821–1823, and is a brick, temple-form structure, measuring approximately 45 feet wide and 71 feet deep. It was listed on the

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in 1980 and is in the Charlotte Court House Historic District. It features a tetrastyle

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portico with whitewashed

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ed columns. It is based on plans supplied by

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and is a prototype for numerous Roman Revival court buildings erected in Virginia in the 1830s and 1840s. Also on the property is a two-story, three-bay, brick office building used as a law office and a

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Clerk's office, with a distinctive entrance tower and arched entrance. an
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Joseph R. Holmes, a delegate to the 1868 Virginia Constitutional Convention, was murdered outside the courthouse in 1869. He and fellow delegate Edward Nelson, who testified about the murder, were both Republicans and African American.

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