Lenoir County Courthouse – Kinston NC

City:
Kinston, NC

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)

New Deal Agencies:
Unknown, Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA), Federal Works Agency (FWA)

Completed:
1939

Designers:
A. Mitchell Wooten, John J. Rowland

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Volume II of a 1978 report entitled 100 Courthouses, A Report on North Carolina Judicial Facilities states the county sold bonds to build a new court house in 1939, but that the construction was “under the guidance of the Federal Works Administration.” According to the report, the architects, A. Mitchell Wooten and John J. Rowland, designed a “rare and important example of the sleek modern style.”

Source notes

100 Courthouses: A Report on North Carolina Judicial Facilities, Volume II (1978).

Site originally submitted by Maryann Olly on August 4, 2015.

Location Info


130 S Queen St.
Kinston, NC 28501
Lenoir County

Coordinates: 35.259216, -77.580468

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