Dodge County Courthouse (Georgia)

The Dodge County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in Eastman, Georgia. Built in 1908, it was designed by Eastman-born American architect Edward Columbus Hosford, who is noted for the courthouses and other buildings that he designed in Florida, Georgia and Texas. The builder was M.L. Lewman & Company. This was the very first courthouse Hosford had ever designed. His commission was controversial because his father, Charlie Columbus Hosford, was a member of the building committee appointed by the county commissioners. Since Edward C. Hosford then lived in Atlanta, it was rumored that he was going to farm the project out to the more experienced architect who had been bypassed in order to give him the commission, but he moved back to Eastman and did all the work himself.[2][3]

Dodge County Courthouse
LocationEastman, Georgia
Coordinates32.20099°N 83.17601°W / 32.20099; -83.17601
Built1908
Built byM.L. Lewman & Co.
ArchitectEdward Columbus Hosford
Architectural styleClassical Revival
MPSGeorgia County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference No.80001012 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1980
Courthouse in 2013

On September 18, 1980, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. Caldwell, Wilber W, The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair: A Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910, Macon: Mercer University Press, 2001, p.252 & 366.
  3. National Register listings for Dodge County
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