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Suffolk County Courthouse

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Location
  
Boston, Massachusetts

Architect
  
George A. Clough

NRHP Reference #
  
74000391

Built
  
1894

Architectural style
  
Second Empire, Other

Added to NRHP
  
May 8, 1974

Suffolk County Courthouse

The Suffolk County Courthouse, also known as the "John Adams Courthouse", is a historic courthouse building on Pemberton Square in Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (the state's highest court) and the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

The six-story granite courthouse was built in 1893 to a design by Boston city architect George Clough. Stylistically the building was described at the time as "German Renaissance"; it is now viewed as transitional between the monumental Second Empire style of Boston's Old City Hall and the Classical Revival.

From 1893 to 1938, the Supreme Judicial Court and the Social Law Library occupied the building, known then as the Suffolk County Courthouse. In 2002, the Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and the Social Law Library returned to the restored building, which was renamed the John Adams Courthouse. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

References

Suffolk County Courthouse Wikipedia