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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: May 3, 2015
Caption: Fifth Newberry County Courthouse (1908, Neo-classical)
1226 College Street
Additional Description: Constructed in 1908 at the cost of $50,000, this monumental building of red brick and terra cotta was designed by noted architect Frank P. Mil burn in the neoclassical style. The building consists of a central rectangular block, three stories above a basement, with matching west and south colossal porticos. The porticos have coupled brick Ionic columns with swags suspended from the volutes of the column capitals. The full entablature features a paneled frieze and a cornice with dentils and heavy modi 11 ions. The cornice is repeated in the pediments of the two porticos. The west elevation displays wood-framed tripartite windows with console detailing on each floor. Wood panel insets connect the first and second floor windows, with molded pediments surmounting the central lower floor windows. Contractor for the building was George W. Waring of Columbia, S.C. In 1938 the building was enlarged with a matching red brick rear addition, designed by Columbia, S.C., architect and Newberry County native Heyward S. Singley. (Newberry Historic District National Register Nomination Form, 1974)
Submitted: May 31, 2015, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p309793
File Size: 0.089 Megabytes

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