The chief landmark is the Rappahannock County Courthouse, a two-story Flemish-bond Jeffersonian-style building constructed in 1834-1835 by Malcolm F. Crawford of Albemarle County who had worked on construction of the University of Virginia and built the Page County Courthouse and Greene County Courthouse (both surviving and NRHP-listed), and also the courthouse of Spotsylvania County. Crawford also built the adjacent Court clerk’s office (now the office of the Commissioner of Revenue). Other brick buildings in the courthouse complex are the county jail (1835-1836, constructed by John W. Fant of Stafford County) and the county treasurer’s office (1857). A small frame building (1857) on the northwest corner of the complex served as the original office of the Commonwealth Attorney.