====== Clerk's Building (BE 148) ======
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Currently located on Gallatin Street in the [[boone county|county]] seat of [[Burlington]], the Boone County Clerk's Building is the county's sole surviving government [[historic buildings|building]] of the antebellum era.  Built in [[1853]] and (originally) located opposite the [[courthouse]], the Clerk's Building was one of the original buildings of the Courthouse Square.  From [[1889]] to 1924 the building housed the [[Boone County Deposit bank]].  When a new [[banks|bank]] building was built in 1924, the former clerk's building was relocated to the southwest corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets and converted to a post office.

In September 2001, following an outpouring of public support, it was saved from demolition by the Boone County [[Fiscal Court]] and moved back to Courthouse Square.  It was completely restored and now serves as the northern anchor of a new formal public space that unites the core of [[government]] buildings in Burlington for the first time since 1925.

The Clerk's Building is a well-proportioned Greek Revival temple-form brick structure, distinguished by brick pilasters that mark each of the bays on all four faces.  The facade treatment originally consisted of a centered door.  The centered colored-glass fanlight balanced by a side entrance and window is one of a series of alterations made when the building was converted into a bank in 1889.

The Clerk's Building was included in the Burlington Historic District that was added to the [[National Register]] in 1979.

=====More Information=====
  * "[[the_old_boone_county_clerk_s_building| The Old Boone County Clerk's Building]]" by Matthew E. Becher 

==== Related websites ====
  * National Register Information (PDFs), [[https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=f587918d-3eaf-4840-b3ed-c6716bf39303|inventory form and photos]]

===== Related Topics =====

  * [[County Clerk]]
  * [[Historic Buildings]]
  * [[Government]]
  * [[burlington_historic_district|Burlington Historic District]]