Your County Courthouse
I was supposed to do jury duty last week, but I never ended up having to go in. Regardless, it gave me the idea for this thread. (There is an older thread in the archives, but many of the pictures are gone.)
Here is the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan: http://media.mlive.com/grpress/opini...9627-large.jpg media.mlive.com This facility was built in the 2000's after the Hall of Justice (built in 1967 in the name of urban renewal) was torn down in 2002...which apparently no one ever enjoyed being in: http://courthousehistory.com/images/...ice)_large.jpg courthousehistory.com When the Hall of Justice was built, it replaced the functions of the Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse built in 1892 (subsequently torn down): http://courthousehistory.com/images/...%20A_large.jpg courthousehistory.com 'Tis a shame that our old courthouse (along with our old city hall and old post office) is gone... |
Here is ours in Montgomery County, PA located in Norristown and right down the street from me; it's a cool building that kind of reminds me of a miniature version of our state's capitol:
http://www.acebailbondspa.com/images...rt%20house.jpg http://www.acebailbondspa.com/images...rt%20house.jpg The view from Main St. http://www.cardcow.com/images/set198/card00539_fr.jpg http://www.cardcow.com/images/set198/card00539_fr.jpg And here you can see its dome sticking out in our skyline: http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/...lineAtDusk.jpg http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/...lineAtDusk.jpg |
Current Fulton County Courthouse (Atlanta), built in 1911:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3120/2...92c96099_z.jpg http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...electedIndex=9 Second Fulton County Courthouse, built in 1895: http://collections.atlantahistorycen...=600&width=600 http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...electedIndex=1 First Fulton County Courthouse, built in 1838: http://multimedia.dailyreportonline...._mainphoto.jpg http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...electedIndex=3 Fulton County Government Center (courthouse annex), built in 1989: http://rosser.com/wp-content/uploads...8394786254.jpg http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...electedIndex=8 |
With over 900 sq. miles and over 5,000,000 people, cook county has many courthouses spread around the county, but here are the two main county courthouse structures in downtown Chicago.
Here's the original city/county building that serves as the combined headquarters for both the city of chicago and cook county governments. http://dalje.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2...3056864446.jpg source: http://dalje.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2...056864446.jpg] and here's the annex structure, the daley center, built in the 60s after the chicago/cook county bureaucracy outgrew the original building. This structure is where the courtrooms for the county are located today. http://www.23hq.com/5473655/5851253_...a027_large.jpg source: http://www.23hq.com/5473655/5851253_...a027_large.jpg |
Buncombe County Courthouse, built in 1927. When completed, it was the tallest courthouse in North Carolina.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...ckSquare51.jpg Catch it at night, and it can look very ominous. http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...Downtown17.jpg |
Miami Dade County Courthouse
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...Ae6PFbCSnRMNwD
Built in 1925 and standing at 360 feet | 120 m with 28 stories it was the tallest building at the time south of Baltimore. From Wiki: In the early 1920s, architect A. Ten Eyck Brown entered a design competition for Atlanta City Hall, which was rejected. He then made the plans available to Dade County, and City and County officials readily approved them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami-D...nty_Courthouse |
This is the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador:
http://www.signalhillhikerphotograph...4_edited-L.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8438/8...4ce0938b_b.jpg http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4145/4...ded00cca_b.jpg This is the main court house in Harbour Grace: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/34/121...46320fc7_o.jpg This is the one in Bonavista: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7388/9...a42db055_b.jpg And the one in Trinity (white one behind the red Parish Hall at centre): http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1290/8...ec52f839_b.jpg |
the old Ada County Courthouse is next the statehouse in downtown Boise. it's scheduled for renovation into a new law school:
http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8020/...2b954c8233.jpg the new Ada County Courthouse is a few blocks south of the old one. it's the lower left building in this image: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/9192440.jpg |
I went looking through my photobucket account to find any other courthouses I might have happened to catch...
North Carolina Henderson County Courthouse -- Hendersonville, NC http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/100_3105.jpg This is the historic courthouse, built in 1904. It's no longer used as a courthouse, and instead hosts the county government and a regional history museum. Jackson County Courthouse -- Sylva, NC http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b.../Sylva_104.jpg Like Henderson County's old courthouse, this one has been repurposed. It's now the county library. Rutherford County Courthouse -- Rutherfordton, NC http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...rfordton37.jpg South Carolina Florence County Courthouse -- Florence, SC http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...Florence66.jpg It's the building in the background, on the left. Greenville County Courthouse -- Greenville, SC http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...eenville27.jpg Sumter County Courthouse -- Sumter, SC http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...r/Sumter84.jpg |
Palais de Justice de Paris
The building is located on Ile de la Cité in the middle of Paris near the Prefecture de Police (Paris police HQ) building and Notre Dame. It is build on the site of the former Palais de la Cité royal palace of which the famous Sainte Chapelle and Conciergerie remains. This is why to visit the Sainte Chapelle, you need to pass through security gates. The Conciergerie and the Saint Chapelle dates of the XIII century, you can found other older trace of the former Palace. Anyway most of Palais de Justice was build during the second end of the 19th to the early 20th century. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...deJusticea.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...tice-paris.jpg Picture by Nitot, Wikipedia http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ustice_rwk.JPG Picture by Mbzt, Wikipedia This building is now too small, a new Courthouse is under in construction. The Tribunal de Grande Instance (High court?) of Paris will move in a brand new 525 ft skyscraper by 2017-18. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...e_aerienne.jpg There are also three other Tribunal de Grande Instance (High court) in Préfecture de Police jurisdiction. Those courts are located in the capital of the three inner suburbs departement (Hauts de Seine, Seine Saint Denis and Val de Marne). Tribunal de Grande Instance de Bobigny http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...TGIBobigny.jpg Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre The building on the left, the rest of the complex is the Préfecture of Hauts de Seine department HQ. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...GINanterre.jpg Tribunal de Grande Instance de Créteil http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...TGICreteil.jpg |
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Coconino County Courthouse, Flagstaff Arizona:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5447/9...55a1b866_c.jpg 2013-07-06 Flagstaff 35 by buckeyenative001, on Flickr Originally constructed in 1894 using sandstone from the Sedona area, expanded in the 1950s (the portion with the garage door in the lower right hand corner was the original Coconino County Jail before the new jail was completed in 2000) and renovated in 2001-2002. |
I had my first photo thread featuring the Palm Beach Courthouse in downtown West Palm Beach
This is the old one. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8381/8...abaca8c7_b.jpg And the new one. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8388/8...dd8511a1_b.jpg The highest floor is an observation deck. You don't have to pay but you need an excuse (ex.court meeting, field trip) to get up here. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8239/8...a0a0f299_b.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8092/8...df357816_b.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8110/8...832e86cd_b.jpg I own all these pictures. |
Ingham County Courthouse
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2185/2...e49902f9_b.jpg Ingham County Courthouse by © Doug Waggoner, on Flickr http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4053/4...f0fb9c0d_b.jpg Ingham County Courthouse | Mason, MI by NightFox Photography, on Flickr Were Lansing the county seat, I can tell you this thing would have been demolished when "urban renewal" made it's rounds. |
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What is also nice about the Ingham County Courthouse in Mason (making Lansing the only state capital that is not also its county's seat of government) is that the small-town feeling allows the courthouse to have more of a 'presence.' If it were in Lansing, surely it would be dwarfed by the Capitol and other buildings in downtown. |
We don't have counties in Newfoundland, but we do have a bunch of towns which act as service centres for broader regions which are loosely defined by the people that live there. Stephenville has the courthouse which serves Bay St. George and the southwest coast of the island, as far east as Francois.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/1...9a3433ba_c.jpg 100_3257 It was built in the 1950s as a dormitory on the U.S. Air Force base here (Ernest Harmon AFB) and converted to a courthouse following the base's closure in 1967. It has no real presence from street level. It's dwarfed by the college and a large apartment building which you can see rising up above it in the background, a bar across the street which sits on a hill, and is surround by 6 other buildings which look identical to it and have been converted to apartment buildings. |
The current Harris County Courthouse. (Houston, TX)
http://www.ccl.hctx.net/images/CourtsFX.jpg http://www.ccl.hctx.net/ The historic Harris County Courthouse http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ston_Texas.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_County,_Texas http://www.ccl.hctx.net/images/1910_...ouse_Night.jpg http://www.ccl.hctx.net/ |
I live in a pre-world war one suburb of st. louis, so this is the st. louis county courthouse in the sunbelty downtown that is the st. louis county seat, not the city courthouse downtown st. louis city.
http://www.mocounties.com/images/cou...uis_county.jpg http://www.mocounties.com http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townn...review-300.jpg stltoday.com |
St. Louis City courts building:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_building.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_building.jpg and of course the 1840s old courthouse structure: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6suh12Zswx...courthouse.JPG http://3.bp.blogspot.com |
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