Westmoreland County Courthouse (Greensburg, Pennsylvania)

 government, courthouse, historical building

The Courthouse (1908). The original county seat was in Hanna's Town where several buildings, including the tavern used as the courthouse, have been reconstructed. The seat moved to Greensburg in 1787, where an existing building was used for a courthouse. The first true courthouse in Greensburg was completed in 1801, a plain brick building. A third courthouse on about the same spot was put up in 1854, and then demolished in the early 1900s.

This present courthouse was completed in 1908 in a highly decorative Beaux Arts style, a larger and grander version of the Washington County courthouse. Smith & Swetnam call this architecture French Renaissance, probably due to the chateau look below the roofline and decorative stonework. The front, to the right in the picture, is no longer used; entrance is through a modern annex at the back connected to the courthouse at the rear ground floor.

www.mapsofpa.com/countyseatsf.htm
www.co.westmoreland.pa.us/

2 N Main St., Courthouse Square, Greensburg, PA 15601-2405
Phone: (724)830-3106
Fax: (724)830-3029