Guilford County Courthouse is a historic

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building located at

Greensboro Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh, the 69th-most populous city in the Un ...

Guilford County, North Carolina Guilford County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population is 541,299, making it the third-most populous county in North Carolina. The county seat, and largest municipality, is Greensboro. Si ...

. It was designed by architect Harry Barton and built between 1918 and 1920. It is a five-story, rectangular

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building. It has a rusticated raised basement, fluted Ionic pilasters on the upper three stories, a stone

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, and a shallow pedimented hexastyle

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 served as the courthouse until 1974 when it became part of the county complex which combines the old and new courthouses as the center of county government. It was listed on the

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in 1979.

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County courthouses in North Carolina Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Renaissance Revival architecture in North Carolina Government buildings completed in 1920 Buildings and structures in Greensboro, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Guilford County, North Carolina {{GuilfordCountyNC-NRHP-stub