SUMMERS COUNTY COURTHOUSE

When constructed in 1875-76, the courthouse was a 48 foot square, two-story building. It was transformed into a large, red brick Late-Victorian structure, whose rectangular mass features six symmetrically placed octagonal, nearly identical towers. The building was enlarged with rear additions in 1923, and again in the 1930s. A special feature is a spiral cast iron stairway in the northwest tower, leading to the courtroom.

This handsome red brick structure is one of the few original courthouses still being used in the state. It is on the National Historic Register.