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Cambria County Courthouse

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A 1923 renovation added an elevator, three new wings, each with a courtroom, and a rotunda with an elaborate glass dome joining the wings. Courtroom 1 was added at this time. It is one of the largest courtrooms in the United States, with 500 seats. A second renovation was completed in 1995.
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designed the courthouse and Henry Shenk constructed it at a cost of $ 109,962. The building is a parallelogram with a 120 ft. of frontage on Center St. with a depth of 80 ft. The height to the eaves of the roof is 48 ft. Eighty thousand pressed bricks made by H & G Evans of
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The mansard slate roof has porthole dormers and elaborate chimneys and a decorative bracketed cornice. The central pavilion has flanking pilasters supporting a classic portico.
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Two earlier courthouses served the county. The first was built in 1808 and the second in 1828-1830. The current courthouse was built on the same site as the second.
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Twenty-six portraits of county judges grace the building, many of which were painted in the 1920s and 1930s by Mr. and Mrs. Vale. Two 1930 murals,
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Philadelphia were used to construct the outer walls, and 20,000 bricks were made onsite for the inner walls.
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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
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Cambria County Courthouse is located in Pennsylvania
Cambria County Courthouse is located in the United States
Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
40°29′1″N 78°43′29″W / 40.48361°N 78.72472°W / 40.48361; -78.72472
Beebe, M.E.
Second Empire
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courthouse
Ebensburg
Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Second Empire
mansard roof
National Register of Historic Places
M.E. Beebe
Buffalo, New York
List of state and county courthouses in Pennsylvania


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