Wilkes County Courthouse, Washington, GA

 national government / government, courthouse, clock tower, Romanesque (architecture), NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1904_construction, historic landmark

The Wilkes County Courthouse is a historic government building and clock tower located in the city of Washington, Georgia. The 1904 structure is the latest in a series of courthouses which have served Wilkes County over the centuries, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1980.

The Frank Milburn design is heavily influenced by Richardsonian Romanesque and Romanesque Revival styles. Originally built with extensive ornamentation along the roof and a clock tower nearly twice as tall as the rest of the building, the building saw these features destroyed by fire in 1958. After being left tower-less and capped by a flat roof for more than three decades, the courthouse received a partial restoration in 1989, with a simpler roof and shorter tower.

On this site in 1865, near the end of the American Civil War, C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis convened the final session of the Confederate Cabinet and the government of the Confederate States of America was officially dissolved.