Lenoir County Courthouse

Lenoir County Courthouse

Lenoir County Courthouse, September 2013
Location Queen and Kings Sts., Kinston, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°15′30″N 77°34′25″W / 35.25833°N 77.57361°W / 35.25833; -77.57361Coordinates: 35°15′30″N 77°34′25″W / 35.25833°N 77.57361°W / 35.25833; -77.57361
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built 1939 (1939)
Architect Wooton, A. Mitchell; Loving,T.A.
Architectural style Moderne, Streamline
MPS North Carolina County Courthouses TR
NRHP Reference # 79001730[1]
Added to NRHP May 10, 1979

Lenoir County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built in 1939, and is a three-story, "H"-shaped, Moderne style building. It is faced with a limestone veneer and accented by streamlined, stylized ornament. It features a tetrastyle in antis portico of square fluted piers.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Mary Ann Lee and Joe Mobley (n.d.). "Lenoir County Courthouse" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.


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