GeorgiaFire repeatedly shaped the courthouse square in Douglas: the county's first courthouse was a log structure raised between 1855 and 1858, its 1889 wood-frame successor burned in 1898, and the brick 1900 courthouse with its landmark clock tower was itself destroyed by fire in 1938. Out of that last loss came the present Coffee County Courthouse, completed in 1940 to a Stripped Classical design by Atlanta architect William J. J. Chase. The two-story brick building anchors the Downtown Douglas Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, and it was renovated and enlarged in 1991. No single sensational case has come to define the building, but its very fabric records the cycle of fires that repeatedly forced Coffee County to rebuild the seat of its government.
Coffee County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Coffee County Courthouse is a courthouse in Douglas, Coffee County. It is one of 78 historic sites cataloged in Coffee County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.5086, -82.8510 near Douglas. The nearest cataloged historic site is Coffee County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Coffee County, Union Banking Company Building, and G & F Railroad / Norfolk Southern Railroad.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Fire repeatedly shaped the courthouse square in Douglas: the county's first courthouse was a log structure raised between 1855 and 1858, its 1889 wood-frame successor burned in 1898, and the brick 1900 courthouse with its landmark clock tower was itself destroyed by fire in 1938. Out of that last loss came the present Coffee County Courthouse, completed in 1940 to a Stripped Classical design by Atlanta architect William J. J. Chase. The two-story brick building anchors the Downtown Douglas Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, and it was renovated and enlarged in 1991. No single sensational case has come to define the building, but its very fabric records the cycle of fires that repeatedly forced Coffee County to rebuild the seat of its government.
Sources: georgiaencyclopedia.orgcourthouses.coen.wikipedia.org
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