York County Courthouse (York, South Carolina)

 courthouse, historical building

York County Courthouse is significant as a courthouse design of prominent architect William Augustus Edwards. The courthouse is a monumental two-story yellow brick building constructed in 1914. The courthouse has the cross-axis plan common to Edwards courthouses with the façade at the south end of the longitudinal axis.

The façade features a colossal Ionic tetrastyle portico, projecting from a three-bay entrance pavilion on the five-bay elevation. The portico is of stone as are the entablature and the basement story. The cornice is raked into a pediment, which features a central recessed medallion, with flanking triangular recesses, in its tympanum.Listed in the National Register October 30, 1981.

2 N Congress St., York, SC 29745
Phone Number: (803) 628-3036

www.yorkcountygov.com/
www.nationalregister.sc.gov/york/S10817746015/index.htm