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SOMERSET COUNTY COURTHOUSE

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1904–1905, Frank E. and Henry R. Davis. 30512 Prince William St.
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)

The Colonial Revival brick courthouse is the third in Princess Anne, replacing an 1833 gable-front building. Its classical design harkens back to the county’s eighteenth-century heyday, as did other civic-minded buildings of the period, including the Bank of Somerset (1903; 11732 Somerset Avenue) and Peoples Bank of Somerset (c. 1907; 30513 Prince William). The courthouse is distinguished by shallow central pedimented pavilions to the front and Somerset Avenue side, and by contrasting granite Ionic-columned portico, jack-arch keystone lintels, stringcourse, and dentiled cornice. Its architects, Frank and Henry Davis, were from Baltimore, while contractor W. P. Pusey and Sons hailed from Snow Hill.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Timeline

  • 1904

    Built

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Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "SOMERSET COUNTY COURTHOUSE", [Princess Anne, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-ES77.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 134-135.

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