National Register of Historic Places
Passaic County Court House and United States Custom House and Post Office Historic District
Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey
The record
- Listed
- July 21, 2015
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- 73-87, 63-65 Hamilton St., Paterson
- County
- Passaic
- State
- New Jersey
- Contributing resources
- 2 buildings, 2 structures, 2 objects
- Coordinates
- 40.91435, -74.17184
- Reference number
- 15000443
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The story
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The Passaic County Court House and United States Custom House and Post Office Historic District is a historic district at 73-87 and 63-65 Hamilton Street in Paterson, Passaic County. Its two contributing buildings were built between 1888 and 1936, combining the late Italian Renaissance Revival and Flemish Renaissance Revival styles.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture, politics and government, and social history. Its period of significance runs from 1899, the year of the Custom House and Post Office, to 1937, when renovations added the serpentine corridor joining the two buildings.
Physical character
The building walls are limestone and brick on a rock-faced granite foundation, with a copper-coffered dome and clay tile roof over the Custom House and Post Office. Inside, Scagliola and Mycenian pink marble walls rise beneath a leaded glass interior dome, and the courtroom keeps its cast iron spiral staircase and quarter-sawn oak trim. A serpentine corridor built in 1937 connected the two buildings, and a small portico on the south elevation was removed that year to make way for it.
Historical context
The Custom House and Post Office, associated with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, dates to 1899, and the Passaic County Court House was completed in 1904. Passaic County bought the building from the federal government in 1936, and renovations the next year added the corridor joining the two buildings.