GeorgiaHouston County's present courthouse in Perry, home of the Superior Court, was built in 2002 to serve one of Georgia's fastest-growing counties after the earlier building was outgrown. That prior courthouse, a 1948-1949 structure designed by Columbus architect E. Oren Smith in a Stripped Classical, Art Deco-influenced style, still stands on the Perry square and was repurposed as the Houston County government building. Perry has been the county seat since the 1820s, when the village then called Wattsville was chosen for its central location and renamed for naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry. The courthouse square lies within the National Register-listed Perry Courthouse Square Historic District, long the civic heart of a town that later sent Sam Nunn, U.S. senator and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, from Perry to Washington. Historic county trials and business belong to the earlier square buildings rather than the 2002 courthouse.
Houston County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Houston County Courthouse is a courthouse in Perry, Houston County. It is one of 2 courthouses documented in Houston County, among 44 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.4687, -83.7011 near Perry. The nearest cataloged historic site is Perry United Methodist Church (historical marker), about 1.9 miles away. Others within a short drive include New Perry Hotel, Governor John Houston, and Evergreen Cemetery.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Houston County's present courthouse in Perry, home of the Superior Court, was built in 2002 to serve one of Georgia's fastest-growing counties after the earlier building was outgrown. That prior courthouse, a 1948-1949 structure designed by Columbus architect E. Oren Smith in a Stripped Classical, Art Deco-influenced style, still stands on the Perry square and was repurposed as the Houston County government building. Perry has been the county seat since the 1820s, when the village then called Wattsville was chosen for its central location and renamed for naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry. The courthouse square lies within the National Register-listed Perry Courthouse Square Historic District, long the civic heart of a town that later sent Sam Nunn, U.S. senator and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, from Perry to Washington. Historic county trials and business belong to the earlier square buildings rather than the 2002 courthouse.
Sources: hhjonline.comen.wikipedia.orggeorgiaencyclopedia.org
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