Aerial view of historic Somerset County Courthouse located in Somerville, New Jersey,
The structure, now 100 yrs old, along East Main Street between Bridge and Grove streets is the fifth courthouse to serve Somerset County. The earliest two courthouses burned down — the first in Franklin by accident and the second in Millstone by British Lt. Col. John Simcoe in 1779 during the Revolutionary War. Officials constructed the county's third courthouse in Somerville in 1782, which also was used by the Dutch Reformed Church as a place of worship for six years. The fourth courthouse was built on the current site in 1799 and enlarged in 1849. Somerset Courthouse dinner In 1905, freeholders tapped the firm of architect J. Riely Gordon to design a new courthouse and accepted a whopping $227,589 bid to construct it in 1906. The eventual three-story high structure was built with white Alabama marble and contained five courtrooms around a central rotunda. Features included borrowed light to illuminate stairwells, a ventilation system using cross-breezes and the rotunda and a judge's bench awash in light from leaded glass behind it.
Size: 5120px × 3413px
Location: main street, somerville, nj usa.
Photo credit: © Robert Quinlan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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