List of county courthouses in New Jersey

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There are 21 counties in the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Superior Court subsumed and replaced the New Jersey County Courts, which were abolished in 1978. [1] The Superior Court has 15 vicinages (jurisdictional districts or circuits), some encompassing two or three counties, each of which has its own courthouse or courthouses. [2] [3] Frequently the county courthouse is home to the appropriate vicinage of the Superior Court. Some counties have different facilities for different divisions, such as the criminal, civil, family, and finance courts. [4] [5] In some counties there are other buildings which house court facilities where proceedings take place, some of which are historic county courthouse or administration buildings, which may also serve as offices for county, state or federal agencies.

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Many court buildings have been evaluated by the state historic preservation office (SHPO) and have been listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places (NJRHP) and the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), either individually or as contributing properties (CP) to historic districts. [6] Several have been documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Three courthouses (at Salem, Sussex, and Burlington) dating from the 18th century that are among the oldest courthouses in the United States still in active use. [7]

The Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton, the state capital, is home the administrative headquarters of the statewide court system of the Judiciary of New Jersey, including the New Jersey Supreme Court and the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court. [8]

The below lists include buildings in active use as well as extant historic buildings that have served county courthouses.

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Historic buildings, annexes, additional and alternative courthouses

County,
Courthouse,
Location		ImageMapBuilt,
Architect		 SHPO
NJRHP (SR)
NRHP (NR)
HABS 		NotesReferences
Atlantic,
Atlantic County Courthouse,
Mays Landing,
Hamilton Township
39°27′07″N74°43′34″W / 39.452°N 74.726°W / 39.452; -74.726 (Atlantic County Courthouse) 		Atlantic County Courthouse, Mays Landing, NJ.jpg Map of New Jersey highlighting Atlantic County.svg 1838, 1916, 1978CP: Mays Landing Historic District
SR: 338 (1990)
NR: 90001245 (1990)		Office of County Clerk [10]
Cape May,
Old Cape May County Courthouse,
Cape May Court House,
Middle Township
39°05′02″N74°49′24″W / 39.08375°N 74.82326°W / 39.08375; -74.82326 (Old Cape May County Courthouse Building) 		Couthouse Cape May Courthouse NJ.jpg Map of New Jersey highlighting Cape May County.svg 1848SR: 1006 (1981)
NR: 81000389 (1981)
HABS NJ-1112		 [19] [52]
Hunterdon,
Old Hunterdon County Courthouse,
Flemington
40°30′38″N74°51′34″W / 40.51045°N 74.85933°W / 40.51045; -74.85933 (Old Hunterdon County Courthouse) 		Hunterdon County Courthouse, Flemington, NJ.jpg Map of New Jersey highlighting Hunterdon County.svg 1828,
Springer		CP: Flemington Historic District
SHPO: 79 (1977)
SR: 1587 (1980)
NR: 80002493 (1980)
HABS NJ-771		 [53] [54]
Mercer,
Mercer County Courthouse,
Trenton
40°12′57″N74°45′45″W / 40.21585°N 74.76263°W / 40.21585; -74.76263 (Mercer County Courthouse) 		2014-08-30 11 09 08 View of Mercer County Court House in Trenton, New Jersey from the north.JPG Map of New Jersey highlighting Mercer County.svg 1900–02,
William Slack		Mercer County Prosecutors Office [55] [31]
Middlesex,
Middlesex County Family Courthouse,
Civic Square,
New Brunswick
40°29′33″N74°26′50″W / 40.4924°N 74.4471°W / 40.4924; -74.4471 (Middlesex County Family Courthouse) 		MiddlesexFamilyCouthouse1.JPG Map of New Jersey highlighting Middlesex County.svg 2000 [56]
Passaic,
Old Passaic County Court House,
Paterson
40°54′50″N74°10′16″W / 40.91392°N 74.17112°W / 40.91392; -74.17112 (Old Passaic County Court House) 		Passaic County Court House - Paterson, New Jersey.jpg Map of New Jersey highlighting Passaic County.svg 1902,
Fred Wesley Wentworth (supervising architect)		CP: Passaic County Court House and United States Custom House & Post Office Historic District

SR: 5441 (2015)
NR: 15000443 (2015)

 [43] [57] [58]
Passaic,
Passaic County Court House Annex,
Paterson
40°54′52″N74°10′17″W / 40.91437°N 74.17141°W / 40.91437; -74.17141 (Passaic County Court House Annex) 		PassaicCountyCourtHouseAnnex1.tiff Map of New Jersey highlighting Passaic County.svg 1899,
Fred Wesley Wentworth 		[43] [57]
Salem,
Old Salem County Courthouse,
Salem
39°34′20″N75°28′00″W / 39.57214°N 75.46666°W / 39.57214; -75.46666 (Old Salem County Courthouse) 		Salem Courthouse Mkt St.JPG Map of New Jersey highlighting Salem County.svg 1735, 1818CP: Market Street Historic District
SR: 2449
NR: 75001157		2nd oldest U.S. courthouse in continual use [45]
Sussex,
Sussex County Courthouse,
Newton
41°03′32″N74°45′13″W / 41.05879°N 74.75365°W / 41.05879; -74.75365 (Sussex County Courthouse) 		Sussex County Courthouse (1847), Newton, NJ.jpg Map of New Jersey highlighting Sussex County.svg 1765 original
1847 rebuilt		CP: Newton Town Plot Historic District
SR: 2618 (1979)
NR: 79001523 (1979)		Sussex County Judicial Center [38] [59] [60]

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