Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-84441

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[ILLUSTRATIONS]
[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS]
[FOREWORD]
[INTRODUCTION]1
I.[FAIRFAX COUNTY'S EARLY COURTHOUSES: 1742–1800]3
II.[THE PROVIDENCE COURTHOUSE AND ITS RELATED BUILDINGS: 1800–1860]12
III.[THE COUNTY COURT AND ITS OFFICERS]18
IV.[THE WAR YEARS: 1861–1865]33
V.[THE YEARS OF REBUILDING: 1865–1903]42
VI.[THE TWENTIETH CENTURY COURTHOUSE]50
VII.[THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE COURTHOUSE AND ITS RELATED BUILDINGS]58
[1. The Courthouse Complex]58
[2. The Courthouse]73
[3. Restoration of the Original Wing of the Courthouse, 1967]87
APPENDIXES
[A. County Court Clerks: 1742–1976]107
[B. Justices and Judges: 1742–1976]108
[C. Portraits in the Old Courthouse—Biographies]117
[D. Clerk's Office Specifications, Alexandria Gazette, July 15, 1853]121
[E. Schedule of Reconstruction of the Courthouse, 1967]123
[LIST OF SOURCES]127

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Front Cover—Courthouse about 1920]
[Back Cover—Court papers, 1976]
[Five Colonial Justices of the Fairfax County Court: George Washington; George Mason; Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax; George William Fairfax; and Bryan, eighth Lord Fairfax]2
[Cartograph of Alexandria Courthouse Square]6
[Surveys of courthouse lot, 1798–1924]15
[Civil War view, 1862]32
[Hopkins' map of Fairfax Court House, 1879]44
[Marr monument's dedication, 1904]49
[The Tavern, c. 1932]51
[1907 courthouse picture]51
[Two aerials of the courthouse and county center complex, 1970s]55
[Clerk's Office, 1907]61
[County Jail, 1886]63
[Police Department, c. 1947]63
[Naval Cannon]67
[Marr Monument]67
[War Memorial plaques]68
[Central staircase mural]69
[18th century English town and market halls]76
[Two-story windows, c. 1966; double row windows, 1967]80
[Courtroom remodeled in 1920]82
[Central entrance, 1954 addition]83
[Floor plans]88
[Three views of the gutted courthouse, 1966]90
[Two interiors of the courthouse restoration, c. 1968]92

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS