Originally built as the Third Judicial District Court House between the years 1874-1877 fto a design by architects Frederick Clarke Withers and Calvert Vaux.
The former Wentworth County Court House was one of the original buildings in Hamilton.
Most large Irish towns have a fine classical courthouse (Carlow,
The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut met here until 1933;
Built in two stages, the original and larger part was constructed in 1882-83 and housed the Courts,
English immigrant duo Alfred Louis Smith (1830–1907) and Arthur Ebdon Johnson (1859–95) won a architectural competition for their design and prepared the working drawings.
Selected design after an architectural competition to replace County Court House that was destroyed in a fire in 1882.
Designed by J. Poelaert, and published in The Building News,
The police courts and station at the corner of King and James,
