Hampden County Courthouse
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- Location
- Springfield, United States
- Year
- 1874
- Typology
- Civic
- Materials
- Brick, Concrete, Plaster, Stone, Timber
- Context
- Gothic Revival, Romanesque Revival Architecture, Richardsonian Romanesque
- Map
- Open location
Hampden County Courthouse is a historic courthouse on Elm Street in Springfield, Massachusetts designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. This was the county's second courthouse. The first courthouse was a small meetinghouse structure built in 1740, and the second and was constructed in 1822, but by the 1860s, popular pressure was developing for a new proper courthouse. A grand jury indicted the county commissioners in 1869 for official misconduct since the courthouse did not have fireproof storage for the registry of deeds and the safekeeping of public records. This forced the county to build a new courthouse.
