The domestic scaled brick building, which resembles a bungalow with a front porch, stands between the antebellum clerk’s office (see Thomas Bragg and Abraham Spencer) and the imposing temple-form antebellum courthouse. It, like its predecessor, is an unusual survival of an important building type erected to house county offices and records. The small white building to the left of the courthouse is the clerk’s office built by the B. F. Smith company.