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Howard County Courthouse (Maryland)
Building in Maryland, United States of America / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Howard County Courthouse is a historic building in Ellicott City, Maryland that was the courthouse for Howard County's Circuit Court from 1843 to 2021.
Howard County Courthouse | |
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![]() Front of the courthouse in 2020 | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Classical Revival |
Location | Court Avenue |
Town or city | Ellicott City, Maryland |
Country | United States of America |
Coordinates | 39.2689°N 76.7976°W / 39.2689; -76.7976 |
Construction started | 1840 |
Completed | 1843 |
Cost | $24,000 (1840) |
Client | Howard County, Maryland |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Samuel Harris |
Engineer | Charles Timanus [1] |
Construction of the granite building, designed by Charles Timanus, cost $24,000 and took three years (1840–1843). It is situated on a steep hill once named Capitoline Hill on property purchased from Deborah Disney.[2] It[ambiguous] also went by the nickname "Mt. Misery".[3] In 1972, local historian Charles Stein claimed that the heavy granite block construction "should continue in service for centuries".[citation needed]
A stone house on Main Street that was used as a temporary courthouse during construction of the permanent courthouse survived until being swept away in the 2018 Ellicott City Flood after a culvert collapsed.
In July 2021, the Circuit Court moved to a new building in Columbia, Maryland.[4] Howard County has held public meetings and solicited concepts for reuse of the now-vacant historic courthouse and its surrounding property, but has not formally approved any definite plans.[5]