Justice Court Building, Glen Cove

Name: Justice Court Building
Address: Glen Cove, United States

#10 among attractions in Glen Cove

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The Justice Court Building is a historic court and municipal building located in Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. Built for the city between 1907 and 1909, it was designed by the architect Stephen Francis Voorhees. The 3-story, rectangular red brick building has a steeply pitched roof covered with green clay tile. A 1+1⁄2-story rear addition was built in 1923, used for some time as a jail. It is decorated with ceramic-glazed moldings and molded terra cotta decoration and exhibits features of the Dutch Colonial Revival or Collegiate Gothic style. It features a square bell tower. The former rectory contains the museum and is a 2-story rectangular building in the Tudor Revival style. ()

Built: 1907 (117 years ago)Coordinates: 40°51'44"N, 73°37'34"W

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Justice Court Building – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Woolworth Estate, Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, Sea Cliff Village Hall.

1.5 miSW
Church
St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Sea Cliff
38 min walk • St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at 253 Glen Street in Sea Cliff, Nassau County, New York. The congregation was formed in 1889, with services taking place at the old Sea Cliff Hotel. Parishioner F. W. Geissenhainer donated land for a permanent church in 1892, with the cornerstone laid the same year.
1.3 miNW
Forts and castles
Woolworth Estate, Oyster Bay
34 min walk • Woolworth Estate is a historic estate located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was designed in 1916 by architect C. P. H. Gilbert for Frank Winfield Woolworth.
1.2 miW
40°51'37"N • 73°38'53"W
Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, Glen Cove
30 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum, History museum
1.4 miSW
City hall, Tudor Revival architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
Sea Cliff Village Hall, Glen Cove
37 min walk • Sea Cliff Village Hall, Library and Museum Complex is a historic civic building complex located at Sea Cliff in Nassau County, New York.
1.3 miNW
Synagogue
North Country Reform Temple, Glen Cove
34 min walk • North Country Reform Temple-Ner Tamid is a Reform synagogue in Glen Cove, New York. Initially founded in 1956, the temple has employed two facilities in Glen Cove, the first burning down in 1982.
~1150 ftNW
Tudor Revival architecture
Old Glen Cove Post Office, Glen Cove
6 min walk • Old Glen Cove Post Office is a historic post office building located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was designed by Stephen Voorhees, then with the architecture firm Eidlitz & McKenzie, and built in 1905.
~1960 ftW
40°51'47"N • 73°37'59"W
Glen Cove Public Library, Glen Cove
10 min walk • Library