Facts

📍 State: Kentucky / City: Elizabethtown

🗓️ Year Built: 1934

🧑‍🎨 Architect: Thomas Nolan

🏛️ Architectural Style: Beaux-Arts 

💎 Unique Details: Notable for its Beaux-Arts style, the courthouse features a three-story brick central block with a gently projecting entrance pavilion, a shallow classical portico, and a prominent Palladian window on the second floor. Brick quoins define the corners, while a decorative balustrade crowns the roofline.

Why See It?

Situated at the heart of the Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District, the courthouse is part of a historic area listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This district encompasses a collection of buildings that reflect the city’s development and architectural heritage.

Nearby Highlights

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest – Bernheim Arboretum is a 16,000-acre forest celebrated for conservation, education, and art. Danish artist Thomas Dambo’s three giant wooden trolls—Mama Loumari, Little Elina, and Little Nis—are featured along a 2-mile trail. The site also includes the Canopy Tree Walk, rising 75 feet above the forest floor.

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