Rowan museum salisbury nc

This s county courthouse survived Stoneman's Raid and served Rowan until the early 20th century. Today it houses museum offices, rotating exhibits, and the Messinger Room. Head towards Salisbury Downtown on Innes Street. Street parking available on Council and Main Streets. Pictured: The courthouse. Nichols, Photographer April, It was built between and , and is a two-story, Classical Revival, stuccoed brick building on a granite foundation.

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It measures 50 feet wide and 85 feet long and features a pedimented portico supported by six Doric order columns. This was the third courthouse structure built by county commissioners. Soon after Rowan County was established in , Salisbury was designated as the fourth site in the colony where the "General Gaol Delivery" or Supreme Court was to sit.

For this essential role in the colony the newly established town sought to erect a building at the intersection of Main and Innes Streets that was of frame work, weather-boarded, and a story and a half high. This structure was completed in