Nice looking courthouse

Sigarms · May 6, 2020

Seems every week I've been spending in SC for work.

What was funny was I was heading back to a different office, so GPS took me a slightly different route.

First time in this town, (I was following the GPS blindly and scratching my head) came to a stoplight, and there it was right in front of me...

joefromga · May 7, 2020

All the courthouses in the South look that way.

2LaneCruzer · May 7, 2020

Well, was going to post a picture, but that option seems to have disappeared.

fried1765 · May 7, 2020

Sigarms said:
Seems every week I've been spending in SC for work.

What was funny was I was heading back to a different office, so GPS took me a slightly different route.

First time in this town, (I was following the GPS blindly and scratching my head) came to a stoplight, and there it was right in front of me...

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Nice looking setting, but the steeple (cupola?) is WAY out of proportion for the building size.

Sigarms · May 7, 2020

2LaneCruzer said:
Well, was going to post a picture, but that option seems to have disappeared.

I thought it was just me earlier this morning...

Sigarms · May 7, 2020

joefromga said:
All the courthouses in the South look that way.

With all due respect, you can't make a blanket statement like that IMO.I've always considered NC as being in the "the south" (AKA below the Mason Dixon line), and luckily the only time I generally have to be at a courthouse is for work or for volunteer work. I say that because personally, I think my own counties couthouse is pretty plain and simple, bordering on the line of ugly (plain square with some kind of aluminum/steel siding). Know a couple of other counties in NC where the courthouse really doesn't stand out architecturally as well.That said, the one other courthouse I did take a picture of because I thought it was nice looking was the Bulloch County Courthouse in Georgia.

Sigarms · May 7, 2020

fried1765 said:
Nice looking setting, but the steeple (cupola?) is WAY out of proportion for the building size.

I would agree.Just that after about 6 trips taking the same way home, as noted, after following the GPS blindly because I was going back to the office, I had NO clue where I was going, just seeing that I'd end up in the city where I wanted to go. The building stuck out at me just sitting at the stop light having no where to go and wait (seemed like a long light LOL).

radios1 · May 7, 2020

the Courthouses in My State have imported Italian marble inside, what a waste of money!!..

2LaneCruzer · May 7, 2020

Here's a link to the picture I was trying to post; this is a Texas Court House, where, incidentally, we got our marriage license many moons ago. It doesn't look much like the other court house. Texas is Southern, right?

Upshur county courthouse - Google Search

Sigarms · May 7, 2020

Hmm, pic links now work.

The one in Georgia I thought enough of to take a picture of...

My county courthouse...

I'll be in Tennesse tomorrow. Ironcially their courthouse looks a little like my county's courthouse, but with bricks and some larger windows.

fried1765 · May 7, 2020

Sigarms said:
Hmm, pic links now work.

The one in Georgia I thought enough of to take a picture of...

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My county courthouse...

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I'll be in Tennesse tomorrow. Ironcially their courthouse looks a little like my county's courthouse, but with bricks and some larger windows.

Perhaps architects in both South Carolina and Georgia both missed the day that building proportions were discussed in architecture class.

Industrial Toys · May 7, 2020

I guess if you are on the wrong side of the law, no courthouse is attractive.

two_bit_score · May 8, 2020

2LaneCruzer said:
Here's a link to the picture I was trying to post; this is a Texas Court House, where, incidentally, we got our marriage license many moons ago. It doesn't look much like the other court house. Texas is Southern, right?

Upshur county courthouse - Google Search

Good old Upshur County. I once testified there as a rebuttal witness for the defense in a criminal trial involving a fatal car/ pedestrian accident.

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joefromga · May 8, 2020

Check this Google search for GA courthouses.

county courthouses Georgia - Google Search

2LaneCruzer · May 8, 2020

two_bit_score said:
Good old Upshur County. I once testified there as a rebuttal witness for the defense in a criminal trial involving a fatal car/ pedestrian accident.

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Sharn Jean has a lot of kin there; I love the country (except maybe in August). It's grown a lot in the last 50 years, and what used to be a quiet little town is now feeling the hustle, bustle and traffic of urban America.

2LaneCruzer · May 8, 2020

Sigarms said:
Hmm, pic links now work.

The one in Georgia I thought enough of to take a picture of...

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My county courthouse...

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I'll be in Tennesse tomorrow. Ironcially their courthouse looks a little like my county's courthouse, but with bricks and some larger windows.

Just my opinion, but it seems to me that a lot of the early public buildings were built, if they could afford it, a bit on the elaborate side, one...to be imposing as a government building, and two...because it was expected to last indefinitely. I would say a good example is the Masonic Temple in Guthrie, originally intended to house the state legislature. I have toured this building, and it is very impressive.

Scottish Rite Temple – Guthrie, Oklahoma
- Atlas Obscura

Sigarms · May 8, 2020

joefromga said:
Check this Google search for GA courthouses.

county courthouses Georgia - Google Search

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The reality is Georgia isn't the only state in the US that is considered "southern". I believe your first comment to my original picture was basically "they all look that way in the south".

An interesting read...

https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/roberts_benjamin_a_201008_mhp.pdf

The Watuaga NC county courthouse on my drive back from Tenn.

Please note, I had to wait for what I call the "Lake Placid u turn" by the Jeep that gave me time to take the picture LOL

/pine · May 8, 2020

For anyone interested in antebellum architecture...do a google image search for 'Madison GA'...It was one of the few towns that Sherman did not burn on his march to the coast...it was spared for political reasons...

two_bit_score · May 8, 2020

Port Gibson Mississippi was spared by Grant because he said it was 'too beautiful to burn". Located on the Natchez Trace Parkway Port Gibson is a beautiful town with very nice people and a great historic setting.

After giving up on entering Vicksburg from the river Union forces went south and the Battle of Port Gibson provided the opening to landfall and ultimately the fall of Vicksburg.

It's also the county seat of Claiborne County and has a beautiful courthouse.

Port Gibson, Mississippi - Wikipedia

two_bit_score · May 8, 2020

Also the Cass County Courthouse in Linden , Texas is a very nice Courthouse.

Cass County courthouse, Linden, Texas, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.

Not as ornate as some but very classic.

We do have 254 counties in Texas with some extremely nice Courthouses.

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