This was considered a temporary location and the courthouse later moved to the home of John Hopper in Ho-Ho-Kus.

Freeholder Peter Zabriskie later donated land near his Hackensack home located at the northeast corner of Main and Bridge Streets, and in 1786, a new courthouse and jail opened.

James Riely Gordon, a civil engineer, born in Winchester, Virginia, won a competition to design the Bergen County courthouse.

On the west side of the green is a marker showing where the second courthouse stood before it was burned by the British in 1780.

General Poor died in 1780 and is buried across the street from the Green at the Dutch Reformed Church.

The interior dome of the rotunda area of the courthouse is modeled after the Pantheon in Rome.

In the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), murals were painted in courtrooms 253 and 352.

The interior of the rotunda and its courtrooms were treated with marble, scagliola, bronze and cast iron.

The exterior walls of the courthouse rotunda building were made from Vermont marble.

On top of the dome is a copper figure entitled “Enlightenment Giving Power” by Johannes Gelert.

Around the drum of the dome is a relief consisting of forty panels that represent twelve tablets of the first Roman Law.

The left group consists of Truth holding a mirror flanked by Justice and Integrity.