GeorgiaThe current Spalding County Courthouse in Griffin, built by the firm Baulding & Spandro in the early 1980s, replaced a 1911 yellow-brick courthouse by prominent Atlanta architect A. Ten Eyck Brown that was gutted by an electrical fire on January 12, 1981. This modern courthouse became the setting for one of Georgia's most closely watched cold-case trials: in 2018 a Spalding County jury convicted Frankie Gebhardt of the 1983 murder of Timothy Coggins, a young Black man killed, prosecutors said, for socializing with a white woman, in a case reopened decades later on a tip. The county's first permanent courthouse, an 1859 Italianate building designed by Columbus Hughes, still stands nearby; later converted to a jail, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The modern courthouse continues to anchor Griffin's downtown square as the county's working seat of justice.
Spalding County Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Spalding County Courthouse is a courthouse in Griffin, Spalding County. It is one of 75 historic sites cataloged in Spalding County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.2484, -84.2624 near Griffin. The nearest cataloged historic site is Spalding County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Lewis Lawrence Griffin, The City of Griffin, and History of Griffin, Georgia.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The current Spalding County Courthouse in Griffin, built by the firm Baulding & Spandro in the early 1980s, replaced a 1911 yellow-brick courthouse by prominent Atlanta architect A. Ten Eyck Brown that was gutted by an electrical fire on January 12, 1981. This modern courthouse became the setting for one of Georgia's most closely watched cold-case trials: in 2018 a Spalding County jury convicted Frankie Gebhardt of the 1983 murder of Timothy Coggins, a young Black man killed, prosecutors said, for socializing with a white woman, in a case reopened decades later on a tip. The county's first permanent courthouse, an 1859 Italianate building designed by Columbus Hughes, still stands nearby; later converted to a jail, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The modern courthouse continues to anchor Griffin's downtown square as the county's working seat of justice.
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