Second Tompkins County Courthouse - Ithaca, NY
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N 42° 26.550 W 076° 29.890
18T E 376787 N 4699995
Also known as Old Courthouse, it replaced a wooden Greek Revival building. It looks like a church and is by the DeWitt Park between two old churches.
Waymark Code: WMQ56D
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/22/2015
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"the Old Tompkins County Courthouse, the "oldest surviving court house of the Gothic Revival period in the state of New York and the oldest public building in Tompkins County," according to Bullock. "
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Excerpt from Ithaca and its Past:
“The oldest Gothic Revival courthouse in the state, this building was the county’s second courthouse. Designed by John F. Maurice, a Union Springs architect, it replaced a small cheap wooden Greek Revival building that had been hastily built in 1818 to insure that Ithaca would become the county seat. Simeon DeWitt [arguably, the chief non-Native founder of Ithaca], who laid out the early village of Ithaca, gave the land to the county. When the new courthouse was built in 1932, the county exchanged the building for another lot. Public outcry forced the county to buy it back in 1934, however, and the building has housed county offices since then. The second-floor courtroom is especially handsome. The room originally featured an open timber (cathedral) roof, but an attic and the present ceiling were added during the Victorian period because of the high heating costs. The large brackets are part of the original roof trusses. The building was completely renovated in 1975-1976 as a Bicentennial project.”