The Justice Court Building is a historic court and municipal building located in
Glen Cove in
Nassau County, New York
Nassau County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of New York. At the 2020 U.S. census, Nassau County's population is 1,395,774. The county seat is Mineola and the largest town is Hempstead.
Nassau County is situated on western Long Island ...
. Built for the city between 1907 and 1909, it was designed by the architect
Stephen F. Voorhees
Stephen Francis Voorhees FAIA (February 15, 1878 – January 23, 1965) was an American architect in practice in New York City from 1910 until 1959. From 1935 to 1937 he was president of the American Institute of Architects.
Life and career
Voor ...
(1878–1965) of
Eidlitz & McKenzie. The 3-story, rectangular red brick building has a steeply pitched roof covered with green clay tile. A -story rear addition was built in 1923, used for some time as a jail. It is decorated with ceramic-glazed moldings and molded
terra cotta
Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous.
In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...
decoration and exhibits features of the
Dutch Colonial Revival or Collegiate Gothic style. It features a square
bell tower
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell tower ...
. The former rectory contains the museum and is a 2-story rectangular building in the
Tudor Revival style.
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The building on Glen Street was used for the court, city hall and later as police headquarters. In the early decades, the Women's Exchange was located just to the west of the building; the group raised money to provide social services.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1990.
It has been acquired by the North Shore Historical Museum, which plans to renovate the building for use as a museum.
North Shore Historical Museum
official website
References
External links
North Shore Historical Museum
official website
Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Dutch Colonial Revival architecture in the United States
Government buildings completed in 1907
Buildings and structures in Nassau County, New York
Glen Cove, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Nassau County, New York
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