File:Ontario County Courthouse, Canandaigua, New York - 20210610.jpg

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English: Ontario County Courthouse, 27 North Main Street at Ontario Street, Canandaigua, New York, June 2021. The third building to serve its titular function, erected in 1859 to replace the building located diagonally across Main Street that now houses Canandaigua's City Hall, the courthouse beautifully exemplifies the Greek Revival style popular for civic and institutional buildings in the earlier parts of the 19th century (the roughly contemporaneous Orleans and Wayne County Courthouses bear a close resemblance). The Ionic columns of the tetrastyle temple front are echoed by the Doric pilaster strips interspersed between the windows on the façade to the rear, and though they're not especially apparent from this angle, the scrolls, ancones, and other reliefs in the entablature above the entrance are ornate indeed. Atop are a majestic cupola modeled after the one then under construction at the U.S. Capitol, whose drum and lantern have octagonal footprints and the latter of which is topped with a majestic standing Liberty statue in gold. The building originally also housed the village post office and local U.S. Courtroom (a condition attached to the $25,000 in federal money granted to help fund construction) and was substantially enlarged and expanded in 1908 under the direction of Rochester-based architect Andrew Jackson Warner. The courthouse is perhaps best known historically as the site of the trial of Susan B. Anthony, who in 1872 was arrested and ultimately convicted and fined $100 for voting illegally as a woman, an incident that galvanized support for the women's suffrage movement. However, also notable is the fact that it covers the site where the Treaty of Canandaigua, negotiated with the Iroquois by Thomas Pickering on behalf of then-President George Washington, was signed in 1794, proclaiming "perpetual peace and friendship" between the U.S. government and the Iroquois nations, and granting white Americans the right to settle in the Great Lakes basin in exchange for respect for tribal land rights.
Date Taken on 10 June 2021, 19:15:18
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Author Andre Carrotflower
Camera location42° 53′ 18.26″ N, 77° 16′ 53.49″ W  Heading=40.534210193499° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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