ALACHUA COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Location: corner of Main (SR 329) & SE 1st St.
City: Gainesville
The Alachua County Commission, by
authority of the Florida Legislature, selected this
site for a courthouse in 1854, moving the county
seat from Newnansville. The first courthouse was a
frame building completed in 1856. It was demolished
on the completion of a red brick courthouse in 1886.
The current building, completed in 1958, and its
1962 addition, were erected in response to the
continuing expansion of governmental needs in
Alachua County.