Hampden County Courthouse - Springfield, MA
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The Hampden County Courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites .an historic courthouse at Court Square between Elm and State Streets in Springfield, MA
Waymark Code: WMCM98
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 09/20/2011
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2. The Hampden County Courthouse was built in 1871 after a design of H. H. Richardson, and showed his individualistic adaptation of late Gothic, powerfully handled to express modern function. Remodeling in 1906 has changed the mass and composition and virtually destroyed the Richardsonian elements."
---Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People, 1937
Hampden County Courthouse is a historic courthouse on Elm Street in Springfield, MA. It was designed by the noted architect Henry Hobson Richardson in Romanesque Revival style. Public pressure caused the county to build this courthouse, after a grand jury indicted the county commissioners for official misconduct since the older courthouse did not have fireproof storage for the registry of deeds and the safekeeping of public records. Construction began in late 1871. The building was dedicated on April 28, 1874. The original building cost $214,068.
The main facade of the building features vertical lines, tall windows, and two dormers on either side of the bell tower. The facades were built of light gray Monson granite in rough-faced masonry with smooth trim.
It is currently still in use as a courthouse where it hears juvenile and housing cases.
Street address:
37 Elm Street
Springfield , MA United States
01103