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Courtroom 4
The historic circuit library. |
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This building was constructed between 1910 and 1916. It replaced earlier federal buildings that had become too small. |
| Although not the first neo-classical building in Denver, the final design of the building introduced the style on a grand scale. Early plans to use Georgia marble were changed to native stone through the efforts of local business men.
The exterior is now clad in Colorado Yule marble, quarried in Marble, Colorado, the same stone used for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
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At the time of its construction, it housed all federal agencies located in Denver. The basement and the first floor were primarily occupied by the U.S. Postal Service.
The second floor was dedicated to the U.S. District Court and Appellate Court. The third and fourth floors were zoned into areas for all other agencies including the Immigration Department, Forestry Service, Geological Survey and the I.R.S. |
| A platform on the roof housed instruments for the official weather station of Denver. |
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Ownership of the building has passed through the Treasury Department to the General Services Administration to the U.S. Postal Service and now back to the G.S.A.
Through the years as federal government grew, the building came to be occupied entirely by the U.S. Postal Service with the exception of one District Courtroom and its ancillary spaces. |
| A renovation project (designed by Michael Barber Architecture) to restore the exterior and important interior public spaces in an historically accurate manner and to sensitively rehabilitate the remainder of the building to serve as a Federal Courthouse was completed in 1994.
All building systems including the elevators, mechanical, electrical, plumbing were built according to current safety and handicap accessibility codes as applied to an historical structure.
The value of the restored building has been placed at 200 million dollars.
The building was renamed the Byron White U.S. Courthouse in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White. |
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