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Suffolk County Courthouse

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The Suffolk County Courthouse, now formally the John Adams Courthouse, is a historic courthouse building in Pemberton Square in Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (the state's highest court) and the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Built in 1893, it was the major work of Boston's first city architect, George Clough, and is one of the city's few surviving late 19th-century monumental civic buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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Suffolk County Courthouse
Somerset Street, Boston Beacon Hill

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John Adams Courthouse

Somerset Street 3
02133 Boston, Beacon Hill
Massachusetts, United States
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