Rockingham County Courthouse, County courthouse in Wentworth, US.

The Rockingham County Courthouse is a Classical Revival red brick building on a three-story hipped-roof main block, flanked by two-story flat-roofed wings added in 1937 and later. A low, broad polygonal cupola sits atop the Spanish red tile roof. Frank P. Milburn designed it, and it now houses the Museum and Archives of Rockingham County.

The first court session took place at Eagle Falls on the Dan River in 1786, with operations relocating to Wentworth as the county seat in 1798. A destructive fire in 1906 required the construction of the current building in 1907 by architect Frank Pierce Milburn.

Since 2011 the 1907 courthouse has housed the Museum and Archives of Rockingham County, which occupies the former courtrooms. Exhibits trace county records and local history, including the few old documents, probably tax lists, that survived the 1906 fire. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The building is no longer the active courthouse, as operations relocated in 2011 to a newer Justice Center approximately one mile away. You can view the exterior and appreciate its architectural details from the street as a landmark of the town's judicial history.

The 1906 fire that destroyed the previous courthouse broke out in a mercantile building on the village square and spread to the courthouse. Nearly all records survived except a few old documents, probably tax lists, that were on display in the gallery.