Historical landmark
Franklin Downtown Historic District
Greek Revival brick courthouse with a thirty-foot portico of columns cast to imitate stone.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Williamson County Courthouse on Public Square in downtown Franklin, Tennessee, looks at the building itself: the third courthouse raised on this spot, and the nineteenth-century builders who chose iron over stone for its towering portico. It follows the foundry and furnace nearby that supplied the metal, and the decades of red-brick construction that filled in the rest of the square. Listen for what those four columns are actually holding up.
This audio guide was created using AI.