Suffolk County Courthouse

Boston, US

The John Adams Courthouse, formerly the Suffolk County Courthouse, is a historic courthouse building in Pemberton Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally serving as the courthouse for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, it is home to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (the state's highest court

) and the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Built in 1893, it was the major work of Boston's first city architect, George Clough, and is one of the city's few surviving late-19th-century monumental civic buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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Nearby

Social Law Library library
Pemberton Square square
Austin and Stone's Dime Museum theatre · 0.1 km away
Howard Athenaeum theatre · 0.1 km away
McCormack Building skyscraper · 0.1 km away
Garden of Peace garden · 0.1 km away
Improv Asylum theatre · 0.1 km away
Boston Museum theatre · 0.1 km away