Putnam County Courthouse (New York)
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Putnam County Courthouse
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Front (west) elevation, 2006
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| Location | Carmel, NY |
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| Nearest city | Danbury, CT |
| Coordinates | 41°25′34.8″N 73°40′43″W / 41.426333°N 73.67861°WCoordinates: 41°25′34.8″N 73°40′43″W / 41.426333°N 73.67861°W |
| Area | 0.5 acres (2,000 m2) |
| Built | 1814, renovated 1847 |
| Architect | James Townsend |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 76001264 |
| Added to NRHP | 1976 |
New York's historic Putnam County Courthouse is located on Gleneida Avenue (NY 52) across from the eastern terminus of NY 301 in downtown Carmel, the county seat, overlooking Lake Gleneida. First built in 1814, two years after the county itself was established, it is the second-oldest county courthouse still in use in the state after Fulton County's.
In 1847 it was renovated extensively. At that time the Classical Revival portico and columns were added. Architect James Townsend used commercially available (although inexact) copies of the Corinthian capitals from the Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. For this and its historic importance in the county's history it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The courthouse is a two-story, 5-by-8-bay rectangular gable-roofed frame building, with clapboard siding on the north and south sides and horizontal planks on its west (front) facade. The pedimented gable is supported by the four Corinthian columns, behind which is the main entrance, with molded classical detail. Similar ornamentation can be found on the window lintels. The two front corners have large pilasters; the original stone plinth blocks have been replaced with concrete copies and the astragals taken down to help prevent dry rot in the columns.
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