Somerset County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)

	Somerset County Courthouse
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Somerset County Courthouse
	Interactive map showing The location of Somerset County Courthouse
Location	E. Union St. and N. Center Ave., Somerset, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°0′35″N 79°4′41″W / 40.00972°N 79.07806°W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1904-1906
Built by	Caldwell and Drake
Architect	J.C. Fulton
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	80003634
Added to NRHP	June 27, 1980

Somerset County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse building located at Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1904 and 1906, and is a two-story Classical Revival building measuring 146 feet by 112 feet, and 135 feet tall. It is built of Indiana limestone and sits on a sandstone foundation. The building has a terra cotta tile roof, and central tower with copper dome. It features a semicircular portico supported by four unfluted Corinthian order columns.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Uptown Somerset Historic District.^[1]

The Somerset County Soldiers' Monument (1888) stands at the northeast corner of Centre Avenue and Union Street, on courthouse grounds. About 100 feet east of it, between the courthouse and the old brick jail, stands the 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monument (2003).^[3]

Somerset County Soldiers' Monument (1888)
142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monument (2003)

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^ ^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" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes William R. Gross and Herbert Berman (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Somerset County Courthouse" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-08.
^ Brian Schrock, "Civil war sculpture finds home in Somerset," The Daily American, July 23, 2003.[1]

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes William R. Gross and Herbert Berman (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Somerset County Courthouse" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-08.

[3] Brian Schrock, "Civil war sculpture finds home in Somerset," The Daily American, July 23, 2003.[1]

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