The Old Union County Courthouse in

Blairsville, Georgia Blairsville is a city and the county seat of Union County, Georgia, Union County, on the northern border of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. It was founded near the Nottely River, which was dammed in 1942 as part of the Tennessee Valle ...

was listed on the

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in 1980. It was designed by architects Golucke & Stewart. It has a hipped roof with intersecting gables. An original clock tower is gone, as are some decorative turrets. It has a Richardsonian Romanesque stone-trimmed arch at the main entrance. The courthouse is in the center of a traffic circle that includes Cleveland Street from the south, Pat Haralson Memorial Drive from the north, Blue Ridge Street from the west, and Wellborn Street and Candler Drive from the east. Until 2016

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/ 129/ SR 11 circled around the courthouse from Cleveland Street to the south onto Blue Ridge Street to the west.

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External links

Union County (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Romanesque Revival architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Government buildings completed in 1899 National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Georgia {{GeorgiaUS-NRHP-stub