Click image to enlarge Three buildings make up the Greene County Courthouse Complex-the Probate Office (1856), the Grand Jury Building (1842), and the old Greene County Courthouse (1869), one of the last Greek Revival buildings constructed in the state of Alabama. The original frame courthouse, constructed in 1840, burned in 1868 and was replaced with the current stucco-covered brick building, which was constructed on the same foundations as its predecessor and basically according to the same plan.
One of the few intact nineteenth-century public-building complexes left in the state, these landmark structures now stand at a juncture between the past and the future. Currently the complex is partially abandoned. In 1996 Greene County applied for and received an emergency grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to prepare a structural report and adaptive-use plan for the courthouse. Now the county is looking for the funds to implement the plan. In the meantime, general deterioration and rain damage continue.
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