Talk:Courthouse

Why the checkpoint text should stay

I am putting the text back in about checkpoints because non-American readers of Wikipedia find our security checkpoints strange. Most countries have much more severe restrictions on firearm ownership than the--65.190.158.61 (talk) 18:57, 8 December 2007 (UTC) and thus do not need to impose limitations upon access to their courthouses. --Coolcaesar 08:33, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree somewhat, but the wording as it stands is a bit snarky. youngamerican (talk) 01:38, 7 June 2006 (UT

Canada

The article states that every municipality in Canada constructs one or more courthouses. I'm almost sure this is not true, for two reasons. First, the municipality may well not actually construct a courthouse when the municipality comes into existence, the building may already be there. Second, I'm fairly certain that most municipalities do not even possess a courthouse. It is possible I am mistaken on this latter point, though. Can someone confirm? --Yamla 20:13, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

I think you are correct, but not positive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.158.61 (talk) 18:55, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Can the extensive discussion of what characteristics identify Romanesque architecture be elimininated? If a reader wanted to know wouldn't he/she click on the link for Romanesque Revival? Goldnpuppy (talk) 17:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

English language non US assertion

At present the article states: In other English speaking countries buildings which house courts are simply called "courts". In Australian English we refer to court houses, not courts for the buildings; court refers to the institution. While the building is the court house, if you have to attend, you would say "I have to go to court", but in that context you are referring to the sitting or the institution. An amendment is required I believe, but I will wait for other comments.--A Y Arktos 23:06, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Where I am (in Australia), we have both courthouses and courts/court buildings. A town's centralised (local) court building is a court house (or courthouse), whereas the supreme court building in a capital city is called "the supreme court", or "supreme court building". So I would say usage is mixed. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 09:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Top of Page Picture

I switched the picture of the Bulloch County Courthouse for one I feel is more appropriate. For one, this is, in my opinion, an attractive courthouse that is a fair representative of a typical American courthouse. Additionally, when a person drives through Statesboro, Georgia, on Main Street, this is the view they get. The other picture is from a side street and is not of the front of the courthouse. --GoDawgs1 (talk) 19:05, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Home to the regional county government

What would be the equivalent term in European languages of "Home to the regional county government"? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:11, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

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Page Restructuring

Was planning a series of edits over multiple days to include worldwide topics surrounding courthouses. Would you like to see:

• Ancient Judicial Structures (Mesopotamian court temple complexes, Greek hegemons, Roman basilicas, ancient east asian courthouses, palaces of justice, scandinavian mead halls, british moot halls, latin american cabildos)

• Courthouse Architecture (adversarial and inquisitorial courtroom fittings, potteaux en terre, waddle and daub, frame, han chinese, edo japanese, georgian, federal, neoclassical, belle epoque, victorian, modernist, postmodern, contemporary)

• Specialized courtroom fittings for original jurisdiction and appealate courts in varied settings (judges, magistrates, clerks/secretaries/recorders, enforcement officers, lay judges/juries, adversarial law, inquisitorial law, administrative law, sharia law, etc.)

• Administrative use of space, record storage, access control, and secure circulation (sally ports, custody suites, docks, prisoner cages, etc.)

Any feedback with global points of view would be helpful.

Thanks, Le Prince De Conde (Le Prince De Conde (talk) 06:35, 2 November 2023 (UTC))

I recognize that courtrooms are a separate article, however, the courtroom article is also heavily centered around the late nineteenth and twentieth century north american adversarial courtroom, and even there, the court room still forms the central component of the court house, which houses the court room, as well as other rooms such as judges' chambers, clerk's offices, attorney's offices and workrooms, law libraries, pretrial and probation offices, sheriff's or marshal's office, custody suite, conference rooms, jury deliberation rooms, etc., all of which are used together to safely and efficiently adjudicate court cases within the structure. Le Prince De Conde (talk) 03:12, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Upon further review I have decided not to make any further edits to this article as it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between the development of courthouse architecture through history and prehistory from the development of the interior spaces and fittings which characterized the use of space in these structures, from the earliest court temple complexes in West Asia, to a contemporary East Asian appealate courthouse, an ancient Roman basilica, or an eighteenth century Latin American cabildo, as the interior use of space and fittings often had a significant impact on the choice of exterior ornamentation and architectural style. I will continue to write individual articles about forms of courthouse architecture used in different regions and time periods rather than continue to edit the main courthouse article which several of the editors appear to be satisfied with in its present form. Thanks, Le Prince De Conde (Le Prince De Conde (talk) 06:46, 14 November 2023 (UTC)).

While in larger, more modern courthouses, the design of the building might be designed around a "courtroom stack" of multiple levels of identically designed court floors, administrative suites, and adjacencies, and the design and specifications of the building might have a greater influence over the design of the courtroom than the design of the courtroom would have over the design of the building, in most smaller historical examples, the design of a single courtroom on a level of the building determined much of the spatial arrangements of the courthouse at large, making any discussion of the courthouse architecture of the building while ignoring courtroom layout and fittings increasingly futile. Le Prince De Conde (talk) 07:04, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Discussion about Court House vs. courthouse

Relevant discussion, mentioning this article:

• Talk:Old_Appomattox_Court_House#Court_House_vs._courthouse

--David Tornheim (talk) 05:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)