Fayette County Courthouse (Fayetteville, Georgia)
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Fayetteville, Georgia Fayetteville ( ; locally ) is a city in and the county seat of Fayette County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18,957, up from 15,945 at the 2010 census. Fayetteville is located south of downtown ...
was built in 1825. It was listed on the
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in 1980. It is a brick building but was covered with gray
stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and ...
. It has a hipped roof with a bracketed
cornice In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative Moulding (decorative), moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, ar ...
. Its tower was added in 1888; the tower's clock was installed in 1909. The building was renovated in 1965 at cost of $70,000. In 1980 it was the oldest courthouse in Georgia in continuous use. (includes photos)


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National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Georgia Second Empire architecture in Georgia (U.S. state) Buildings and structures completed in 1825 Buildings and structures in Fayette County, Georgia County courthouses in Georgia (U.S. state) {{FayetteCountyGA-NRHP-stub