The courthouse, a two-story stone structure, was designed in 1894 in a Romanesque style by architects William R. Walker & Son of Providence and built by contractors William F. Norton and Victor Allaire of Woonsocket.

When completed in 1896 it housed the court of the Twelfth Judicial District, later reorganized as the Seventh Division.

[4] The building is a well-designed, though late, example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, with some Classical elements.

It is typical of the civic buildings designed by its architects in smaller towns and urban centers across the state.

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