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Kennebec County Courthouse

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County Jail is just to the south. It is a two-story masonry structure, built mainly out of roughly finished cut granite, with finely finished granite trim. The main block is roughly rectangular, with a central gabled section flanked by hip-roofed wings. The gable front is fully pedimented, supported by six granite Doric columns and topped by a wood-frame open belfry, its corners supported by groups of Doric columns. The building corners are quoined with lighter granite blocks, and iron railings run between the columns of the portico on the second level.
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The courthouse was built in 1829 to a design by James Cochran, who also oversaw its construction. It was enlarged to the rear in 1851, and again in 1907; both additions are of granite in sympathetic styling. The building is one of the state's best examples of early Greek Revival architecture, and
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The Kennebec County Courthouse stands just west of Augusta's commercial downtown, on the east side of State Street between Winthrop and Court Streets. A modern courthouse, which houses most of the county's judicial functions today, stands just to the east across Perham Street, and the Kennebec
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in the state, and its earliest known example of a Greek temple front. The building, which is now mostly taken up by county offices, was listed on the
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is the first documented appearance of a temple front.
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Kennebec County Courthouse is located in Maine
Kennebec County Courthouse is located in the United States
Augusta, Maine
44°18′53″N 69°46′39″W / 44.31472°N 69.77750°W / 44.31472; -69.77750
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Augusta, Maine
county seat
Kennebec County
Greek Revival architecture
National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places listings in Kennebec County, Maine


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