Suffolk County Courthouse, School Street, Boston. Built 1810, designed by Charles Bulfinch / used as County Court, US Court, and City Hall, demolished in 1863 for construction of larger City Hall.
> The courthouse for the county of Suffolk was also built in 1810, of hammered granite, on the lot in School Street from which the Latin School-house had been removed, and where the City Hall now stands. It was the traditional site of the house of Isaac Johnson, the early settler of Boston. Long familiar to many as “the old Suffolk Courthouse,” it is even more intimately connected with the history of the city government than with the county, having been for many years, and during all the latter part of its existence, the Boston City Hall. The county was provided with new quarters in 1836; and in 1862, when the present City Hall was contemplated, the old building was destroyed to make room for it, as no location so desirable could be found for the increased accommodations which the growth of the city required. (*The Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch, Architect,* 1896)
thatcruncheverytimesays
Like it way more than the present city hall, that ones pretty brutal
thatcruncheverytimesays
Any info on the statue in the pic? Who it is/is it still there?
sverdrupian says
> The courthouse for the county of Suffolk was also built in 1810, of hammered granite, on the lot in School Street from which the Latin School-house had been removed, and where the City Hall now stands. It was the traditional site of the house of Isaac Johnson, the early settler of Boston. Long familiar to many as “the old Suffolk Courthouse,” it is even more intimately connected with the history of the city government than with the county, having been for many years, and during all the latter part of its existence, the Boston City Hall. The county was provided with new quarters in 1836; and in 1862, when the present City Hall was contemplated, the old building was destroyed to make room for it, as no location so desirable could be found for the increased accommodations which the growth of the city required. (*The Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch, Architect,* 1896)
thatcruncheverytime says
Like it way more than the present city hall, that ones pretty brutal
thatcruncheverytime says
Any info on the statue in the pic? Who it is/is it still there?