United States Courthouse and Post Office | |
Location | 402 State Street Trenton, New Jersey |
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Coordinates | 40°13′16.1″N74°45′26.3″W / 40.221139°N 74.757306°W Coordinates: 40°13′16.1″N74°45′26.3″W / 40.221139°N 74.757306°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1932 |
Architect | James A. Wetmore |
Architectural style | Renaissance |
NRHP reference No. | 12000309 [1] |
NJRHP No. | 1806 [2] |
Designated NJRHP | May 24, 2012 |
The Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building and United States Courthouse, originally known as the United States Courthouse and Federal Building, is located in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. and houses the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
The building was designed by James A. Wetmore and completed in 1932. [3] The "stripped" Neoclassic structure contains murals by Charles Wells. [4] [5] It was added to the state register of historic places in 1989 and federal register in 2012. [6] It was named for federal judge Clarkson Sherman Fisher in 1993 [7] prior to his death in 1997. [8]
Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Mercer County and was the capital of the United States from November 1 to December 24, 1784. The city's metropolitan area, consisting of Mercer County, is grouped with the New York Metropolitan Area by the United States Census Bureau, but it directly borders the Philadelphia metropolitan area and was from 1990 until 2000 part of the Philadelphia Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 90,871, making it the state's 10th-largest municipality in 2010 and 2020, after having been the state's ninth-largest municipality in 2000. The population in 2020 stood at 90,871, an increase of 5,958 (+7.0%) from the 84,913 reported in the 2010 Census, reversing decades of population loss.
Mercer County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its county seat is Trenton, also the state capital, prompting the nickname The Capital County. Mercer County alone constitutes the Trenton–Princeton Metropolitan Statistical Area and is considered part of the New York Metropolitan Area by the United States Census Bureau, but also directly borders the Philadelphia metropolitan area and is included within the Federal Communications Commission's Philadelphia Designated Market Area. As of the 2020 United States Census, Mercer County's population was 387,340, making it the state's 12th-most populous county, an increase of 20,827 (5.7%) enumerated at the 2010 U.S. Census, when its population was enumerated at 366,513, in turn an increase of 15,752 (4.5%) from the 350,761 counted at the 2000 Census, retaining its position as the 12th-most populous county in the state.
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List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey
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