This is the fourth Broome County courthouse and the third on this site. Go-to Binghamton architect Isaac G. Perry provided the classical design as a replacement for its predecessor that burned in 1896. Perry used Ohio sandstone trimmed with bluestone under a copper dome that rises from a central octagonal base. In front of the courthouse resides a statue of Daniel S. Dickinson, executed by A. G. Newman. In the Democratic National Convention of 1852 Dickinson refused the nomination of to be his party’s candidate to run for the Presidency out of loyalty to General Lewis Cass, to whom he was pledged.
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