Lee County Courthouse, county courthouse in Bishopville, South Carolina, United States
The Lee County Courthouse in Bishopville is a courthouse from the early 1900s featuring neoclassical elements like symmetrical facades, columns, and balanced proportions. The three-story brick and stone structure with yellow bricks laid in Flemish bond pattern has evenly spaced windows with stone trim and a prominent columned portico as the main entrance.
The Lee County Courthouse at 123 S. Main Street in Bishopville was built in 1908, six years after Lee County was created in 1902; it is the only courthouse the county has ever had. Darlington native William Augustus Edwards, who designed eight other South Carolina courthouses and academic buildings at twelve institutions in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, gave it its Classical Revival form. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 1981.
The courthouse keeps the county seat at Bishopville, where Lee County's government has met since the county was formed in 1902. Its 1908 Classical Revival design by William Augustus Edwards places it among the nine South Carolina courthouses he designed, and it has been on the National Register of Historic Places since October 30, 1981.
The courthouse stands at 123 S. Main Street in Bishopville, on the block south of the county seat's commercial centre. The building is a working courthouse, so the interior is reached only for public business and court matters; the exterior and the grounds, with their memorials, can be seen from the street at any time. Parking is on the surrounding streets.
Lee County has had only one courthouse since its creation in 1902; this 1908 building is it. Edwards, a Darlington native, designed eight other South Carolina courthouses plus academic buildings at twelve institutions in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. The structure joined the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 1981.
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