# Bacon County Courthouse

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The **Bacon County Courthouse** is a historic [county courthouse](/source/County_courthouse) on Main Street in [Alma](/source/Alma,_Georgia), [Bacon County](/source/Bacon_County,_Georgia), [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)). It was designed by architect [J. J. Baldwin](/source/J._J._Baldwin) and completed in 1920.[2] The [Rabinowitz Building](/source/Rabinowitz_Building) was temporally used as the courthouse during the construction of the current courthouse.[3] It was added to the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) on September 18, 1980.

According to its National Register nomination, the courthouse is one of only two in Georgia whose main entrances face the corner of a block. The other is the [Morgan County Courthouse](/source/Morgan_County_Courthouse_(Madison,_Georgia)) in [Madison, Georgia](/source/Madison,_Georgia).[4]

## See also

- [National Register of Historic Places listings in Bacon County, Georgia](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Bacon_County,_Georgia)

## References

1. [*The Courthouse and the Depot*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EGyf7XQeWEIC&dq=%22Bacon+County+COurthouse%22+georgia&pg=PA547): The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair: a Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910 Wilber W. Caldwell Mercer University Press, 2001 613 pages

1. ["Rabinowitz Building, 1915, Alma"](https://vanishinggeorgia.com/2009/02/09/rabinowitz-building-1915-alma/) Vanishing Georgia, retrieved April 21, 2025

1. "Thematic National Register Nomination, Georgia Courthouses, Architectural Survey: Bacon County Jail". [National Park Service](/source/National_Park_Service). Retrieved August 27, 2016.

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