Currituck County Courthouse and Jail

	Currituck County Courthouse and Jail
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Old Currituck County Jail, March 2011
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Location	SR 1242, Currituck, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°27′0″N 76°1′1″W / 36.45000°N 76.01694°WCoordinates: 36°27′0″N 76°1′1″W / 36.45000°N 76.01694°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1842, 1857, 1897, 1952
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Early Republic
MPS	North Carolina County Courthouses TR
NRHP reference No.	79001697
Added to NRHP	May 10, 1979

Currituck County Courthouse and Jail is a historic courthouse and jail located at Currituck, Currituck County, North Carolina. The original two-story section of the courthouse was built about 1842, enlarged in 1897, and a rear wing was added in 1952. The 1897 remodeling added a second floor to the original one-story wings and Classical Revival style design elements. The jail was built about 1857,^[2] and is a two-story, rectangular building with 32 inch thick brick walls. It is one of the oldest extant jails in North Carolina. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

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Currituck County Courthouse, March 2011

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Ruth Little-Stokes and John B. Flowers (November 1979). "North Carolina County Courthouses TR: Currituck County Courthouse and Jail" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] Ruth Little-Stokes and John B. Flowers (November 1979). "North Carolina County Courthouses TR: Currituck County Courthouse and Jail" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.

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