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Delaware County Courthouse

USA / Pennsylvania / Media / West Front Street, 201
 courthouse, historical building

The Courthouse (1913). The first Media courthouse was a relatively simple structure that apparently has continuously been added to ever since. A plaque in front gives some building history. The major rebuilding giving the present look was in 1920, resulting in a Neoclassic style with a broad front, really broad, covering two Media blocks. However, the county website dates their building to 1913 with this description: "A unique mix of old and modern architecture, the Courthouse is of the Classical Revival style made with Georgia White Marble on the exterior, and was erected in 1913."

In the terms used here, the building is Neoclassic with an entrance portico on a broad front. The central part of the courthouse including the entrance dates to 1913 , a six column Ionic portico with a clock in the pediment and a slope-roofed shed above for a tower. The columns are repeated on the sides of the projecting 1920 end bays, which harmoniously match the earlier building. An incongruous (in fact, downright ugly) 1985 structure , called the Government Center, is connected to the rear of the courthouse and now accomodates some courthouse functions. An addition was built in 1930 to a design by Clarence W. Brazer (of the firm of Brazer & Robb).

sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-DE16

www.mapsofpa.com/countyseatsc.htm
610-891-4000
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Coordinates:   39°55'12"N   75°23'29"W
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