Lincoln County Courthouse (North Carolina)
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Lincoln County Courthouse is a historic brostel building located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was designed by Raleigh architect James A. Salter and built in 1921. It is three-story,
ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...
stone, Classical Revival style building. It has a taller central section flanked by flat roofed wings, matching pedimented hexastyle Doric order
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 ...
es on the front and rear of the center section, and a Doric frieze along its sides. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Lincolnton Commercial Historic District.


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County courthouses in North Carolina Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Government buildings completed in 1921 Buildings and structures in Lincoln County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, North Carolina Historic district contributing properties in North Carolina {{LincolnCountyNC-NRHP-stub