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Bradford County Courthouse
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Bradford County Courthouse, November 2009
Bradford County Courthouse is located in Pennsylvania
Bradford County Courthouse
Location in Pennsylvania
Bradford County Courthouse is located in the United States
Bradford County Courthouse
Location in the United States
Location 301 Main St., Towanda, Pennsylvania
Area 4.7 acres (1.9 ha)
Built 1847-1848, 1896-1898, c. 1905
Built by Bradley, Thomas
Architect Lehman & Schmitt
Architectural style Classical Revival, Renaissance
NRHP reference No. 86003573
Added to NRHP January 6, 1987

Bradford County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1896 and 1898, and is a four-story, cruciform shaped building, with Classical Revival and Renaissance Revival-style design influences. It has rusticated sandstone exterior walls and a 50-foot diameter octagonal dome atop the roof. It features an entrance portico supported by Tuscan order columns. Also on the property is a modest two-story brick annex building that was built in 1847-1848. Also on the property is a large soldiers' monument, erected about 1905.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

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