Rockingham County Courthouse (Virginia)

Rockingham County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was designed by T.J. Collins (1844–1925) and built in 1896–1897. The courthouse is a 3 1/2-story building of coursed rusticated ashlar above a raised basement. It has a tile covered hipped roof with a molded cornice with dentilwork above a plain frieze. The building has elements of the Richardsonian Romanesque and Romanesque Revival styles. It has a projecting central pavilion with a two-stage clock tower. Fronting the pavilion is a triple arched portico on the first story formed by slender columns set on square pedestals with a heavy stone balustrade above. It is the fifth courthouse to stand on the site since Rockingham was formed from Augusta County, Virginia in 1778.^[3]

Rockingham County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Rockingham County Courthouse, April 2006
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Location	Courthouse Square, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Coordinates	38°26′58″N 78°52′10″W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1896 (1896)-1897
Built by	Spiers, W.E.
Architect	Collins, T.J.
Architectural style	Renaissance, Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	82004566[1]
VLR No.	115-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 16, 1982
Designated VLR	July 20, 1982[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]