|
Livingston County Courthouse in Livingston County, New York is a building in Geneseo, New York, USA, located on 2 Court Street. The court house was designed in 1898 by the Rochester architectural firm of Bragdon & Hillman, which included architects Claude Fayette Bragdon and J. Con. Hillman. Their work on the court house was featured in exhibitions published by architectural organizations. In 2000 the Livingston County Board of Supervisors approved US$77,000 in renovations for the courthouse, which included exterior painting work and security improvement. Judge Ronald Cicoria, who retired in 2005 as the longest sitting judge in New York State, was originally inspired to study the practice of law while walking past the courthouse on his way to class at the State University of New York at Geneseo. In 2001 a fund campaign began to build a statue of James S. Wadsworth on the grounds of the courthouse, modeled after the bronze statue of Wadsworth at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In February 2002, the Livingston County Board of Supervisors agreed to allow the statue to be built on the front lawn of the courthouse. The fund raising campaign had its inaugural event on April 5, 2002, with a speech at the State University of New York at Geneseo by Pulitzer Prize winner and Civil War historian James M. McPherson. ==Building history== Work on the Courthouse was completed in 1901 to designs by the Rochester architectural firm of Bragdon & Hillman,〔 which included architects Claude Fayette Bragdon and J. Con. Hillman. The architects designed the building in 1898.〔 Writing in ''Rochester History'' published by the Rochester Public Library, Erville Costa comments: "The Livingston County Courthouse, which they built in 1898, reflects Bragdon's conviction at the time that colonial architecture was a more honest expression of a truly national spirit than either the eclectic or Richardsonian architecture which dominated the scene." The "Decorative Scheme for the Court Room" and floor plans of the new courthouse were featured in the ''Catalogue of the Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York'', by the Architectural League of New York, published in 1898.〔 The entrance to the courthouse was featured in the ''Catalogue of the Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York'', published in 1899, and in the 1899 ''Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of the Saint Louis Architectural Club''. In 2000, the Livingston County Board of Supervisors approved $77,000 in renovations for the courthouse. This included $64,800 for exterior painting work on the building, and $13,100 for a metal detector unit to be installed at the front entrance of the building.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Livingston County Courthouse (New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|