The Gilchrist County Courthouse is an historic two-story red

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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 112 South Main Street in Trenton,

Gilchrist County, Florida Gilchrist County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Florida. Organized in 1925 from the western part of Alachua, it is the last county to be formed in the state. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,8 ...

. It was designed by the

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firm of Smith, Holborn, and Dozier and was built in 1933 by the

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. This was one of the employment programs of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration during the Great Depression, which invested in infrastructure of the country. Simply styled, the courthouse has "decorative

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ed courses, arched window opening with drip courses, nd atriple arched entry porch."''A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture'', 1989, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, p. 55, with four sets of double columns. In 1965 it was remodeled and expanded with one-story utilitarian additions. Florida's Historic Courthouses: Gilchrist County Courthouse listing
/ref> In 1989, the Gilchrist County Courthouse was listed in ''A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture'', published by the University of Florida Press.

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