- City:
- Trenton, NC
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1938 the county commissioners condemned the existing courthouse as being unsafe. The replacement building was financed by $75,000 from the WPA and $30,000 in county bonds. The Colonial Revival building sheathed in Flemish bond brick was completed in 1939.
Source notes
100 Courthouses: A Report on North Carolina Judicial Facilities, Volume II (1978).Site originally submitted by Maryann Olly on August 4, 2015.
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