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The Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse (1994) and the United States Post Office and Courthouse (1932) house the
The Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse was designated in 1992 honor of federal Judge Mitchell H. Cohen Completed in 1994 the courthouse's entrance is located on Cooper Street. The seven story, 180,000 SF building includes 12 courtrooms and attendant facilities, Appellate Judge's suites, Grand Jury room, District Clerk's office, US Marshall's Service Administrative office, prisoner holding facility, law library, and secure indoor parking.
Located at 401 Market Street between Camden Central Business District and Cooper Grant the United States Post Office and Courthouse opened in 1932. The neoclassical Art deco building was designed by the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
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United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (in case citations, D.N.J.) is a federal court in the Third Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the ...
in Camden, New Jersey. The back-to-back buildings are joined by a second story enclosed skyway
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Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse
The Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse was designated in 1992 honor of federal Judge Mitchell H. Cohen Completed in 1994 the courthouse's entrance is located on Cooper Street. The seven story, 180,000 SF building includes 12 courtrooms and attendant facilities, Appellate Judge's suites, Grand Jury room, District Clerk's office, US Marshall's Service Administrative office, prisoner holding facility, law library, and secure indoor parking.
United States Post Office and Courthouse
Located at 401 Market Street between Camden Central Business District and Cooper Grant the United States Post Office and Courthouse opened in 1932. The neoclassical Art deco building was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect The Office of the Supervising Architect was an agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings from 1852 to 1939.
The office handled some of the most important architectural commissions of the nineteenth ...
under James A. Wetmore
James Alfonso Wetmore (November 1863 – March 14, 1940) was an American lawyer and administrator, best known as the Acting Supervising Architect of the U.S. Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department from 1915 through 1933 ...
with an exterior primarily in limestone, granite, brick. Prominent interior features include decorative and colorful terracotta detailing; Spanish Colonial ornamentation and a ceremonial courtroom with oak wainscot
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Panelling was developed in antiquity to make ro ...
paneling. In addition to the US post office the building houses the United States Bankruptcy Court District of New Jersey.
Gallery
In 1999, an addition connecting the two wings of the complex was created. Thearriccio
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, sinopia
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drawings of the fresco for Ben Shahn
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Biography
Shahn was bor ...
's ''Jersey Homesteads Mural'' was removed from its original community center location in what has now become Roosevelt
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and is permanently installed in the custom-designed gallery within it.
See also
*Camden County Hall of Justice The Camden County Hall of Justice is the county courthouse for Camden County, New Jersey, located in the county seat, the City of Camden. It in the 4th vicinage for the New Jersey Superior Court.
The complex was built in 1982 and was dedicated ...
*List of United States federal courthouses in New Jersey
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* List of tallest buildings in Camden
References
External links
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
{{Camden, New Jersey Courthouses in New Jersey Federal courthouses in the United States Buildings and structures in Camden, New Jersey Tourist attractions in Camden, New Jersey Government buildings completed in 1994 1990s architecture in the United States Neoclassical architecture in New Jersey 1994 establishments in New Jersey