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English: Onondaga County Courthouse, 401 Montgomery Street at Columbus Circle, Syracuse, New York, May 2021. A majestic example of Beaux-Arts Neoclassicism designed by the prolific locally-based architect Archimedes Russell, the building dates to 1907, cost $1.5 million to build, is the fourth to house the county judiciary, and sports a design inspired by McKim, Mead & White's Rhode Island State Capitol. The façade is executed in Indiana buff limestone with gray granite accents and positively brims with Classical detailing, first and foremost in the temple-front portico that serves as the central feature of the main façade overlooking Columbus Circle. Set above a grand staircase, it's composed of an octet of composite columns that support a frieze bedecked with wreath reliefs and a pediment wherein - consecutively - modillion brackets, a dentil row, and a bead-and-reel string course undergird the base and rake below the sloping sides. At the top, flanked by a pair of handsome Classical balustrades defining the flat roofline, a grand cupola with a ribbed dome stands sentinel, surrounded by a quartet of nearly identical smaller cupolae at each corner of the building. The variations in fenestration between each floor: square, interspersed with rustication, and topped with splayed lintels on the ground floor; square and interspersed with rustication but without any window heads on the second story, round-arched and separated by Doric pilaster strips on the third; square and separated by Doric pilaster strips on the fourth - is a nod to Italian Renaissance architectural principles. The exquisitely ornamented interior continues the emphasis on the Beaux-Arts aesthetic.
Date Taken on 8 May 2021, 17:14:25
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Author Andre Carrotflower
Camera location43° 02′ 47.73″ N, 76° 08′ 57.67″ W  Heading=87.5400390625° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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