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Orange county court house vt

Orange County, Vermont courthouse

A courthouse is a building that holds a court. Some courthouses also have offices for the prosecutor and prosecutor's assistants. In small cities, some courthouses have other offices for local government officials.

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United States Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.
Chester County Courthouse, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1846 (housing the trial-level Court of Common Pleas)
Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, 1877 is a consolidated courthouse and center of the political branches of Philadelphia's city-county government.
Bulloch County Courthouse, Statesboro, Georgia
Federal Courthouse, Las Vegas, Nevada
The Crook County Courthouse in Prineville, Oregon
DeKalb County Court House, Auburn, Indiana
Cabell County Court House in Huntington, West Virginia
Lowndes County Courthouse in Valdosta, Georgia
Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Courthouse in Newland, North Carolina
Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in New York City is an example of a postmodern high-rise courthouse
San Francisco County Superior Courthouse located in the San Francisco Civic Center. An example of contextual post-modernism.
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa
Kings County Courthouse, Kentville, Nova Scotia
Halifax Court House in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Frontenac County Court House, Kingston, Ontario, 1858
Law Courts (Vancouver), British Columbia, 1980

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