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Majesty of the law : the court houses of Allegheny County /

By:

Van Trump, James D. (James Denholm), 1908-1995

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0916670120

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

725/.15/0974885 19

LOC classification:

NA4472.P4 V36 1988

Summary: From the dust jacket - in many American town the court house is the supreme work of architecture, the pride of the community. Allegheny County has three successive court houses, and in each case this was so. The first Court House of the 1790s dominated a frontier borough still largely built of logs. It was replaced in 1841 by a much grander Greek Revival building on Giant's Hill, rising over what was already an industrial city. In 1882 this Court House burned, and in its place rose a pair of County Buildings, the present court House and Jail, by Henry Hobson Richardson.. These were and remain, famous : much imitated, much praised, threatened at times but always saved by a proud population. the industrial city has faded and the original town that the Court Houses have successively dominated is now a business district of tall buildings, bu Richardson's tower, though overtopped, retains all its original distinction. [Cont.]

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA4472.P4 V36 1988 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001199

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