The Emanuel County Courthouse in Swainsboro, Georgia serves

Emanuel County Emanuel County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,768. The county seat is Swainsboro. History The county was created on December 10, 1812, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly fr ...

. The current building is the county's eighth courthouse.

Former courthouse

The former courthouse in Swainsboro, built in 1940 and since demolished, and a sheriff department building, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 as Emanuel County Courthouse and Sheriff Department. The Sheriff Department building, built in 1912, is a one-story Classical Revival building with a pedimented entrance

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

. It was designed by Augusta, Georgia, architect L.F. Goodrich. The courthouse served as

's seventh justice building, replacing the 1920 courthouse that was destroyed in a 1938 fire. with It was designed in

Stripped Classical Stripped Classicism (or "Starved Classicism" or "Grecian Moderne") Jstor is primarily a 20th-century Classical architecture, classicist architectural style stripped of most or all Ornament (art), ornamentation, frequently employed by governmen ...

style by architects

Dennis and Dennis Dennis & Dennis was an architectural partnership in the U.S. state of Georgia which was Georgia's oldest architectural firm. It designed numerous commercial, institutional and residential buildings in Macon, Georgia, Macon and other Georgia commun ...

. The courthouse was demolished in 2002, but a historical marker remains.Marker
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References

Stripped Classical architecture in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Emanuel County, Georgia Government buildings completed in 1912 Government buildings completed in 1938 Buildings and structures in Emanuel County, Georgia County courthouses in Georgia (U.S. state) Demolished buildings and structures in Georgia (U.S. state) {{GeorgiaUS-NRHP-stub