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post updated December 15, 2025

January 26, 2025
H Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, Washington, D.C., USA
Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners

photo © Joseph Romeo, courtesy Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
The H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse, located at 500 Indiana Avenue NW in Washington, DC, has long been the home of the Superior Court and Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia as well as the busiest facility in the DC Courts system. Since the building’s completion in 1976, DC Courts had outgrown their existing space and required additional courtrooms, judges’ chambers, and staff office space, as well as improvements for accessibility and security—all of which needed to be constructed while the building remained occupied.

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American Court Building Designs

May 31, 2012
Taunton Trial Court – US District Courthouse, MA
Design: Leers Weinzapfel Associates

photo © Anton Grassl / Esto
Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ Taunton Trial Court in Taunton, MA, is the recipient of a 2012 American Institute of Architecture/Academy of Architecture for Justice (AIA/AAJ) Justice Facilities Review (JFR) Program Award of Excellence Merit, an accolade it also received in 2008 for its US District Courthouse in Orlando.

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American Courthouse Building

Dec 10, 2010
Alpine Courthouse, Texas
Architect: Lawrence W. Speck, FAIA, PageSoutherlandPage

photo : Chris Cooper
The U.S. Courthouse at Alpine, Texas is a $13 million, 38,600 GSF, 2-story U.S. District Courthouse facility located on a five-acre site in West Texas. This project was awarded to PageSoutherlandPage through a GSA Design Excellence competition process and synthesizes unique security, sustainability and circulation requirements dictated by the multiple government agencies that inhabit the facility – all while projecting an image of solidity and permanence appropriate for this landmark building in West Texas.