Old Monroe County Courthouse

	Old Monroe County Courthouse
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	File:Alabama-Monroe County Courthouse retired.jpg
Location	Courthouse Sq., Monroeville, Alabama
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Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1903
Architectural style	Eclecticism
NRHP Reference #	73000366
Added to NRHP	April 26, 1973

The Old Monroe County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building in Monroeville, Alabama that served as the Monroe County courthouse from 1903 to 1967.^[1]

It is significant as an Alabama literary landmark due to its association with Harper Lee and Truman Capote, both of whom spent their childhood in Monroeville and featured the courthouse in their work. Capote mentions it in his A Christmas Memory and it inspired the fictional courthouse in Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.

The film adaptation was heavily influenced by the courthouse, with production designers measuring and photographing the building and then recreating a close duplicate of the interior on a sound stage for filming of the courtroom scenes.^[2]

The courthouse is now one of the Monroe County Museums and is operated as the Old Courthouse Museum. The building has been restored to a 1930s appearance and also features exhibits about Capote and Lee.

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Old Courthouse Museum - Monroe County Museums

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