Somerset County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)

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| name = Somerset County Courthouse

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| image = Somerset County Courthouse.jpg

| caption = Somerset County Courthouse

| location = E. Union St. and N. Center Ave., Somerset, Pennsylvania

| coordinates = {{coord|40|0|35|N|79|4|41|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Pennsylvania#USA

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-marker = building

| mapframe-zoom = 12

|mapframe-caption = Interactive map showing The location of Somerset County Courthouse

| built = 1904-1906

| architect = J.C. Fulton

| builder = Caldwell and Drake

| architecture = Classical Revival

| added = June 27, 1980

| area = {{convert|1|acre}}

| refnum = 80003634{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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Somerset County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse building located at Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1904 and 1906, and is a two-story Classical Revival building measuring 146 feet by 112 feet, and 135 feet tall. It is built of Indiana limestone and sits on a sandstone foundation. The building has a terra cotta tile roof, and central tower with copper dome. It features a semicircular portico supported by four unfluted Corinthian order columns.{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database}} Note: This includes {{cite web| url = {{NRHP-PA|H000843_01H.pdf}}| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Somerset County Courthouse| accessdate = 2011-12-08| author =William R. Gross and Herbert Berman| format = PDF| date= n.d.}}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is located in the Uptown Somerset Historic District.

The Somerset County Soldiers' Monument (1888) stands at the northeast corner of Centre Avenue and Union Street, on courthouse grounds. About 100 feet east of it, between the courthouse and the old brick jail, stands the 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monument (2003).Brian Schrock, "Civil war sculpture finds home in Somerset," The Daily American, July 23, 2003.[http://articles.dailyamerican.com/2003-07-23/news/26345514_1_monument-regiment-dedication-service]

File:TAG 142 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Statue.jpg|Somerset County Soldiers' Monument (1888)

File:TAG 142 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Bronze.jpg|142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Monument (2003)