Some Georgia courthouses
designed by James Wingfield Golucke.
Jones County, Ga. (left) and Union County, Ga. (right) Courthouses
Listed below are courthouses designed by Golucke. “Romanesque Revival Courthouses” are in italics and are linked to other web sites. He also designed courthouses in Alabama and perhaps other states.
1895 - Johnson County-Wrightsville
1895 - Pike County-Zebulon
1897 - Henry County-McDonough - Similar design to Union County's Courthouse, currently undergoing $3 million restoration.
1898 - Clayton County-Jonesboro
1898 - Habersham County-Clarkesville
1899 - DeKalb County-Decatur
1899 - Cobb County-Marietta
1899 - Union County-Blairsville
1900 - Schley County-Ellaville - Similar design to Union County's Courthouse
1900 - Baker County-Newton - Similar design to Union County's Courthouse
1901 - Fannin County-Blue Ridge
1901 - Hart County-Hartwell
1901 - Madison County-Danielsville
1902 - Tattnall County-Reidsville
1902-03 - Bartow County-Cartersville
1902-03 - Meriwether County-Greenville
1902-03 - Pierce County-Blackshear
1902-03 - Twiggs County-Jeffersonville
1904-05 - Cowetta County-Newnan
1905 - Forsyth County-Cumming
1905 - Morgan County-Madison
1905 - Putnam County-Eatonton
1905-06 - Jones County-Gray - Similar design to Union County's Courthouse
1905-06 - Worth County
1906 - Toombs County-Lyons
Dekalb County’s Courthouse, 1898
Built one year before Union County’s Courthouse.
Both courthouses now house their respective Historical Societys
A careful combination of modern American Neoclassical trends and the familiar Classicism of the Old South, Golucke’s granite centerpiece in DeKalb was Georgia’s most imitated public building of first decade of the new century. In all, he would design seven court buildings in Georgia modeled after the general form found here at in Decatur.
Many famed architects, Columbia’s Frank Milburn, Eastman’s Ed C. Hosford, Macon’s Alexander Blair III, Columbus’s T. F. Lockwood, Augusta’s Lewis Goodrich and Atlanta’s Morgan and Dillon would all create court buildings in Georgia following Golucke’s General Decatur plan.