Turbulent Politics and a Stage for Democracy: Government and Governmentality in the Allegheny County Courthouse

This article considers the ways in which Henry Hobson Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse (completed in 1888) mediated a fraught relationship between citizens and their government in late nineteenth-century Pittsburgh. An analysis of the building's fabric and the archival material tha...

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Published in:	Nineteenth-century art worldwide Vol. 22; no. 1; p. 42
Main Author:	Jackson, Carter
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	South Orange Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art 01-04-2023
Subjects:	19th century Architectural history Courthouses Democracy Municipal government Politics Reception (Artistic works) Richardson, Henry Hobson Allegheny County Pennsylvania United States > US Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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Summary:	This article considers the ways in which Henry Hobson Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse (completed in 1888) mediated a fraught relationship between citizens and their government in late nineteenth-century Pittsburgh. An analysis of the building's fabric and the archival material that elucidates its initial reception reveals how Richardson's courthouse served as an ennobling framework that helped restore trust between the citizens of industrial Pittsburgh and their local government following a wave of deadly labor protests in the 1870s and suspicion of political corruption.
ISSN:	1543-1002 1543-1002
DOI:	10.29411/ncaw.2023.22.1.4