Bradford County Courthouse
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Bradford County Courthouse | |
![]() Bradford County Courthouse, November 2009 | |
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Location | 301 Main St., Towanda, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 41°45′59″N 76°26′21″W / 41.76639°N 76.43917°W |
Area | 4.7 acres (1.9 ha) |
Built | 1847-1848, 1896-1898, c. 1905 |
Built by | Bradley, Thomas |
Architect | Lehman & Schmitt |
Architectural style | Classical Revival, Renaissance |
NRHP reference No. | 86003573[1] |
Added to NRHP | January 6, 1987 |
Bradford County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1896 and 1898, and is a four-story, cruciform-shaped building, with Classical Revival and Renaissance Revival-style design influences. It has rusticated sandstone exterior walls and a 50-foot-diameter octagonal dome atop the roof. It features an entrance portico supported by Tuscan order columns. Also on the property is a modest two-story brick annex building that was built in 1847–1848. Also on the property is a large soldiers' monument, erected about 1905.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
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Bradford County Soldiers Memorial, November 2009
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-01-02. Note: This includes Michael J. Hufnagle and William Sisson (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bradford County Courthouse" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-02.
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- County courthouses in Pennsylvania
- Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Renaissance Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
- Neoclassical architecture in Pennsylvania
- Government buildings completed in 1848
- Government buildings completed in 1898
- Buildings and structures in Bradford County, Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Bradford County, Pennsylvania
- 1898 establishments in Pennsylvania