ahem. *nerd voice*

hmm. the dade county courthouse wasnt finished until 1928.

this badboy was finished in 1926, @ 397 ft. (yes, st. louis is south of baltimore :P )

http://collections.mohistory.org/photo/PHO:27767/image
http://collections.mohistory.org

Henderson County, TN courthouse:

http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles15225.jpg
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles15225.jpg

What it replaced:

http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7002/...ce5dbe77df.jpg
http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7002/...ce5dbe77df.jpg

Shelby County, TN courthouse in downtown Memphis:

http://www.forensicval.com/sites/263...Courthouse.jpg
http://www.forensicval.com/sites/263...Courthouse.jpg

The "New" Davidson County, TN Courthouse (Nashville), built in 1936:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3624/3...4a81a7cc_b.jpg
Davidson Co. Courthouse (old) 7: Southeast Reflective view by SeeMidTN.com (aka Brent), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5188/5...2571f4c7_b.jpg
Davidson County Courthouse (Nashville, TN) by hikenandhistory, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8069/8...923fdc43_b.jpg
Davidson County Courthouse by Paul Robbins - BNA-Photo, on Flickr

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2319/2...5a9467a2_b.jpg
Public Square by cwage, on Flickr

Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, formerly the City-county building.

The building serves as both as county building and Detroit's city hall. Though most county offices have actually been moved to the Guardian Building, the Coleman Young Center still houses courthouses on floors 9 through 19 in the taller tower.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8106/8...266dd074_b.jpg
(my pic)

It was completed in 1954 and stood out as the first modernist skyscraper in Detroit's skyline.

http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...y=0;view=image
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...-78892%5D78892




Also interesting is Macomb County's courthouse. It's the wide tower on the left. All 3 towers function a Macomb County government offices. The Art Deco tower to the right was built in 1944 and served as MC's courthouse until the modernist tower next to it was built in 1972. The glass tower in the back is an administrations building and was built in 1998. Pretty interesting mid-rises considering MC is the lesser populated county of Detroit's tri-county area.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6137/5...fd470642_b.jpg
Macomb County Government by Eridony, on Flickr



Oakland County's Courthouse is a post-modern midrise. Sort of interesting how it's built like a typical suburban office but sorta resembles the traditional styles of a courthouse.

http://cms.contractglaziers.com/wp-c...0/oakland2.jpg
http://contractglaziers.com/portfolio/oaklandcourt/

Jefferson County courthouse in Golden, Colorado

AKA The 'Taj Mahal"

http://www.ludvik.com/files/image/Je...ial%201_1B.JPG
source

http://cloudbaseheli.com/wp-content/...hal-1-of-1.jpg
source

It even has it's own light rail station:
http://denverurbanism.com/wp-content...GCGolden08.jpg
source

Spokane Country Courthouse, Spokane Washington
Completed 1895.

From Wikipedia

http://i42.tinypic.com/2vwwdck.jpg

Always loved it.

Milwaukee County

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6164/6...1c636e60_b.jpg
http://flic.kr/p/auZ5mT

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4111/5...ff283bc3_b.jpg
http://flic.kr/p/8WHyfN

Austin is the seat of Travis County. The current Travis County Courthouse was built in 1930 and has 6 floors. It's in the art-deco style. It had been expanded a few years after construction. Today the county is running out of space and needs a new building. A plan is in place to eventually replace it in a few years with both an adjacent criminal courthouse and a civil courthouse several blocks to the south. The current courthouse would remain standing. This courthouse replaced one from the 1880s across the street from the Capitol. That building was demolished in 1964.

https://www.google.com/maps?q=1000+g...xas+78701&z=20

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...house_2011.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tr...house_2011.jpg

I think this is my favorite one thus far, followed closely by Nashville's. Memphis's gets an honorable mention for excellent use of statuary. This building is reserved, yet majestic, without being boring. That's the flaw that keeps Chicago's courthouse from really making an impact -- it's big and imposing, but a bit too dull. This courthouse in Milwaukee is what theirs should have been.

Excellent idea for a thread, I absolutely love buildings like these!

I agree 100% the Milwaukee County Courthouse is absolutely beautiful, I had no idea it existed.

Here is Phoenix's Maricopa County Courthouse, completed in 1928, birthplace of the Miranda rights.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...x2112_Rear.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ma...x2112_Rear.JPG

The annex, Maricopa County Courthouse Tower, was recently completed last year.

http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5eb...7_8_9-sm-1.jpg
http://www.williamsonimages.com/#/ar...4_5_6_7_8_9-sm

You forgot to show what this replaced, which is actually still standing just blocks away...

Old Wayne County Courthouse:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8430/7...19a16019_b.jpg
Wayne County Building, Millender Center Apts., and the Ren. Cen. [9359GS] by Juan N Only, on Flickr

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4138/4...281553b1_b.jpg
Wayne County Courthouse by JVLIVSPhoto, on Flickr

BTW, my favorite courthouse in the entire state is the Midland County Courthouse, if only because I've never seen one like this in the country:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2032/2...0030836d_b.jpg
Midland County Courthouse by Eridony, on Flickr

^
I've been to Midlands courthouse many times, that's where both of my parents grew up and where my grandma lives. Dow Chemical too.

............

This is the Allegheny county courthouse, now it's all covered up by skyscrapers and hard to get a good photo of. It was an actual Richardson building built in 1888 and helped spread richardsonian Romanesque architecture.

http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/a...AEA61E8D59.jpg
Wikipedia.com

Dallas County Courthouse with Dealey Plaza in front.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-p...Courthouse.jpg
source

The new Dallas County Courthouse... the old one is now a museum.
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4153/5...40de2f68e4.jpg
source

Heres NYC's



http://www.wrightlawfirmnyc.com/wp-c...Courthouse.jpg
http://www.wrightlawfirmnyc.com/wp-c...Courthouse.jpg

i will have to respectfully disagree with you. the daley center isn't just my favorite work of architecture in chicago, it's probably my favorite building in the entire world. it's just so unrelentingly strong. the raw structure of those expressed 87' long cor-ten spandrel beams is nothing short of jaw-dropping. Jacques Brownson had some serious cojones to design a tower of such thorough and unashamed muscularity.

milwaukee's courthouse is certainly cool if you dig that neoclassical look, but i'll take one of planet earth's supreme examples of mid-century modernism over a run of the mill neoclassical beast any day.

milwaukee's courthouse is neat. the daley center is magical.

Newark, NJ Courthouse. The county courthouse for Essex County.

http://www.msarchitectsllc.com/portf...Essex_home.jpg
http://www.msarchitectsllc.com/portf...Essex_home.jpg

http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/...ourthouse2.jpg
http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/...ourthouse2.jpg

Back in the good old days...... :cool:

http://www.playle.com/pictures/NORVELL2353.jpg
http://www.playle.com/pictures/NORVELL2353.jpg

http://www.collectorsworldonline.com...n-carteret.jpg
http://www.collectorsworldonline.com...n-carteret.jpg

Galveston County courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Here's the first courthouse. Built in 1897 and demolished in 1966.

http://www.galvestonhistory.org/Lost...Courthouse.jpg
http://www.galvestonhistory.org/Lost...Courthouse.jpg

This is the courthouse that took it's place, no longer in use.
http://www.texascourthousetrail.com/...thouse-001.jpg
http://www.texascourthousetrail.com/...thouse-001.jpg

The new courthouse sits on the western side of the island, mainly because of the growing population off of the island, completed in 2006.

http://www.chuoke.com/wp-content/the...unty-court.jpg
http://www.chuoke.com/wp-content/the...unty-court.jpg

That thing is effing massive...

I currently live in Tuscaloosa County, AL:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3177/5...0707f7b4_z.jpg
Source: Flickr - Bamaboy1941

I grew up in Morgan County, AL:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/133/33...f938341353.jpg
My photo. This thing is quite ugly....


I dunno what it is, but most of the more populated counties in Alabama had a habit of building awful looking buildings to house county government in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s...

One of Alabama's more recent large scale county government buildings is Mobile Government Plaza (obviously in Mobile) which combines city, county, and court offices into a single building in downtown.

http://media.al.com/opinion/photo/13689423-standard.jpg
Source: AL.com

Town I went to High School in: Somerville, NJ. The courthouse is very nice for Somerset County NJ.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/85927621.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/85927621.jpg

Behing it are offices for the county. Building with glass/purple reflection.

http://somersetcountynewjerseybailbo...le-hdr-013.jpg
http://somersetcountynewjerseybailbo...le-hdr-013.jpg

HDR for a cool effect