Schuylkill County Courthouse (Pottsville, Pennsylvania)

 courthouse, historical building

The Courthouse (1892). Orwigsburg was the first county seat, and the first courthouse was a brick structure built there in 1816. The county seat was moved to Pottsville in 1850 and the old courthouse, at Second and Sanderson Steets, opened around 1851. The present 1892 building was built in front of the old courthouse which was then demolished. This is undoubtedly the easiest courthouse in the state to find, a huge castle towering on a hilltop above downtown Pottsville in its narrow valley. This is a Romanesque style building with a square tower (huge clock face) and large arched windows.

The original building is symmetric about the tower with five alternately projecting facades across the front. The annexes have been added to the left as viewed from the front. An annex was added adjacent to the courthouse in 1933, and subsequent building done in the late 1960s and around 1990 on the slope in front. Interior renovations have also been done over the years. Behind the courthouse is the jail , built in 1851 and one of the oldest in the state still in use.

Holds the Court of Common Pleas, as well as the offices of various county offices such as the Sheriff, Clerk of Courts, Prothonotary, Registrar of Wills, Recorder of Dees, and the county Controller.

www.mapsofpa.com/countyseatsf.htm
www.co.schuylkill.pa.us/Offices/Courts/CourtAdministrat...

401 North Second Street, Pottsville PA 17901; phone: 570-622-5570.