You are here

Western Pennsylvania » Great Forest » Elk County » Ridgway » Elk County Courthouse

Elk County Courthouse

-A A +A
1880, J. P. Marston, contractor; 1912 courtroom redesign, Henry C. Park; 1970, Rodgers and Frederick. Main St. between S. Broad, Center, and Court sts.
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)

The Elk County commissioners surveyed nearby courthouses and decided to emulate Milton Earl Beebe's design for Warren County ( WA1). They hired the contractor from Warren County, J. P. Marston of Maine, to build Ridgway's courthouse. His interpretation, while generally faithful to Beebe's original design, places the clock face closer to the base of the tower and opens the belfry at the top. The mansard-roofed building, with square-headed windows on the first story and round-arched windows above, is constructed of brick with stone corner quoins and bracketed cornice. Each elevation has a central projecting bay punctuated by a pediment at the cornice line. There is a modern red brick, three-story addition of 1970 at the rear. As a whole, the building conveys the solemnity befitting a courthouse, which here is surrounded by a green lawn and faces a handsome block of commercial buildings from the same era.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lu Donnelly et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

Ridgway Masonic Temple
Ridgway Free Public Library (Madison S. Kline House)
Elizabeth Hyde House
The Towers Victorian Inn (Jerome Powell House)
River House (George E. Dickinson House)

Citation

Lu Donnelly et al., "Elk County Courthouse", [Ridgway, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-EL1.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 1

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 439-439.

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.

,