The Clinton County Courthouse Complex is a historic county government and

courthouse A courthouse or court house is a structure which houses judicial functions for a governmental entity such as a state, region, province, county, prefecture, regency, or similar governmental unit. A courthouse is home to one or more courtrooms, ...

site located at 135 Margaret Street in

Plattsburgh Plattsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, New York, United States, situated on the north-western shore of Lake Champlain. The population was 19,841 at the 2020 census. The population of the surrounding (and separately in ...

Clinton County, New York Clinton County is the northeasternmost county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 79,843. Its county seat is the city of Plattsburgh. The county lies just south of the border with the Cana ...

. The main courthouse was constructed in 1889. It is a two-story,

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stone and brick

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style, style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revivalism (architecture), revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century ...

style building. It has a hipped roof and rock-faced arched openings. It features a large, square central tower with an open

campanile A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...

and pyramidal roof. The associated Surrogate's Building was built in 1884–1885, and is a two-story,

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

style brick building with a bracketed cornice with

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style detail. ''Note:'' This includes The courthouse complex was added to the

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on November 12, 1982.

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County courthouses in New York (state) Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Italianate architecture in New York (state) Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in New York (state) Renaissance Revival architecture in New York (state) Government buildings completed in 1889 Buildings and structures in Clinton County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Clinton County, New York New York State Register of Historic Places in Clinton County Plattsburgh, New York {{ClintonCountyNY-NRHP-stub

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