The Richmond County Courthouse is a historic

courthouse A courthouse or court house is a structure which houses judicial functions for a governmental entity such as a state, region, province, county, prefecture, regency, or similar governmental unit. A courthouse is home to one or more courtrooms, ...

located at Rockingham,

Richmond County, North Carolina Richmond County is a County (United States), county located on the central southern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its county seat is Rockingham, North Carolina, Rockingham. The county was formed in 1779 from a portion of Anson Cou ...

. It was designed by

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and built in 1922–1923. It is a

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style

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veneer building that consists of a three-story central pavilion flanked by two-story wings. It features a hexastyle ''in antis'' portico. It was listed on the

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in 1979.

References

County courthouses in North Carolina Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Renaissance Revival architecture in North Carolina Government buildings completed in 1923 Buildings and structures in Randolph County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Richmond County, North Carolina {{RichmondCountyNC-NRHP-stub