 The building was completed on March 1, 1905 and the Crew Brothers Company was hired to demolish the 1850 DeKalb County Courthouse.In recent history the third DeKalb County Courthouse has figured in films, as well as the Global War on Terrorism.Courtroom scenes for the 1982 made for television movie , the story of G. Gordon Liddy (of Watergate infamy), were filmed in the courthouse's third floor courtroom.