Douglas County Courthouse - 1956 - Douglasville, GA
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YoSam.
N 33° 45.007 W 084° 45.034
16S E 708357 N 3736723
This typical 1950s style building, courthouse, has been saved and is now a museum, arts center and visitors center.
Waymark Code: WMY8NZ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2018
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County of building: Douglas County
Location of building: Broad St & Bowden St., Douglasville
The name as attached in 1958 in large block letters DOUGLAS COUNTY COURTHOUSE is prominent on the front-Left of building.
Today, in blue neon, they added "The Old" and "Museum"...in cursive...out front a large neon sign reminiscent of the old motels and drive-in movies names the museum in classic 50s style.
Some real history of the building:
"The Douglas County Courthouse is located in Douglasville in the west Georgia county of Douglas.
The 1958 courthouse is located on the courthouse square at the west end of downtown Douglasville
and is bounded by West Broad, West Church, Pray, and Bowden streets. The courthouse is set
behind mature oak trees and a grass lawn and the square slopes down to the rear of the property
toward West Church Street. The courthouse square is included as a noncontributing property in the
Douglasville Commercial Historic District, which was listed in the National Register on July 24, 1989.
"The Douglas County Courthouse is an International Style building that, according to a newspaper
description from 1956, "follows the modernistic trend in construction, using new types of materials
and construction techniques." Designed in 1956 by Harry E. Roos, Jr., of the Southern Engineering
Company and completed in 1958, the courthouse is a long, low, one-story slab penetrated by a taller
rectangular form that contains the courtroom (photos 1-4). The entire structure, which is cantilevered
above the basement level, appears to float above the ground. Parts of the exterior are clad in white
glazed brick but most walls are glass curtain walls in which steel framing supports the roof and the
walls are filled with glass (photos 1-2 and 8-9). The gallery across the main facade comprises floorto-ceiling
plate-glass windows recessed behind a brise-soleil in which the overhanging roof is
supported by cast-aluminum piers (photos 1-2 and 15)." ~ NRHP Nomination Form