DescriptionColored photo postcard of Middlesex County courthouse. The back reads "Middlesex County Court House, New Brunswick, N. J. was built in 1840. Twice fire has damaged it extensively. The most striking feature of the building, the huge columns of full length strips of California redwood were not part of the original design but were added in remodeling after the first fire.
It occupied the block of Bayard, Paterson, Kirkpatrick and Elm Row, and was completed at a cost of $40,000. By the 1940s, the structure was over a century old and was soon replaced by a more modern edifice.
Organization NameNew Brunswick Free Public Library
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