You are here

Colorado » The Colorado » San Juan County » Silverton » San Juan County Courthouse

San Juan County Courthouse

-A A +A
1907, James Murdoch. 1567 Greene St. (Courthouse Square)

A gold-colored dome crowns this Georgian Revival monument, sited on a grassy square block shared by the San Juan County History Museum and the San Juan County Historical Society Archives and Research Center (1994). On the courthouse lawn is a monument imbedded with ore specimens from fifty-one local mines. Native gray sandstone was used for the foundation as well as the trim of this two-story structure of pressed gray brick, capped by a square tower with an elongated, open bell cupola. Paired Doric columns of cast stone support the entry porticos. The interior is pristine, with the original hexagonal tile mosaic floors, oak wood-work, high ceilings, signage, fixtures, and a treasury of maps showing mining claims and the original town plat.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
×

Data

What's Nearby

San Juan County History Museum (San Juan County Jail)
Wyman Hotel (Wyman Building)
Town Hall
Pickle Barrel (Sherwin and Houghton Store)
Posey and Wingate Building

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "San Juan County Courthouse", [Silverton, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-SA07.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 563-563.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,