Old Orange County Courthouse is a historic

courthouse A courthouse or court house is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-spe ...

building located at Hillsborough,

Orange County, North Carolina Orange County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hillsborough. Orange County is included in the Durham–Chapel Hill, NC Metrop ...

. It was built in 1845, and is a two-story,

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style, temple-form brick structure. It replaced

Dickerson Chapel Dickerson Chapel is a historic chapel in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Built in 1790, the chapel originally served as the courthouse for Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County until 1844. It housed a Baptist congregation from 1845 until 1862 ...

as the county's courthouse. The front facade features a

Doric order The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of col ...

tetrastyle pedimented

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 ...

and two-stage

clock tower Clock towers are a specific type of structure which house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another buildi ...

. The building served as the seat of Orange County's government until 1954, when a new building was completed. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1971. It is located in the

Hillsborough Historic District Hillsborough Historic District is a national historic district located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 529 contributing buildings, 9 contributing sites, 13 contributing structures, and 2 contributing obj ...

. File:OldOCCourthouse.jpg, Old Orange County Courthouse

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* Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina County courthouses in North Carolina Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Government buildings completed in 1845 Hillsborough, North Carolina Buildings and structures in Orange County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in North Carolina {{OrangeCountyNC-NRHP-stub