The Hale County Courthouse was built in 1907. The building was designed in a Classical Revival. The counthouse was constructed by John A. Straiton. The building is a contributing building in the Greensboro Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Courthouse serves Hale County which was established in 1867 from portions of Greene, Marengo, Perry, and Tuscaloosa counties. The county was named in honor of Lt. Col. Stephen Fowler Hale, a Greene County lawyer and soldier who died in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War.