| Federal Building and Courthouse | |
| Location: | 401 Market Street Camden, New Jersey |
| Built: | 1932 |
| Architect: | Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore |
| Added: | January 4, 2012 |
| Refnum: | 11000992 |
| Designated Other1 Name: | New Jersey Register of Historic Places |
| Designated Other1 Abbr: | NJRHP |
| Designated Other1 Link: | New Jersey Register of Historic Places |
| Designated Other1 Date: | November 9, 2011 |
| Designated Other1 Number: | 931[1] |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
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The United States Post Office and Courthouse (1932) and the Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse (1994) house the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Camden, New Jersey. The back-to-back buildings are joined by a second story enclosed skyway.
Located at 401 Market Street between Camden Central Business District and Cooper Grant, the United States Post Office and Courthouse opened in 1932. The neoclassical Art deco building was designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore with an exterior primarily in limestone, granite, brick. Prominent interior features include decorative and colorful terracotta detailing; Spanish Colonial ornamentation and a ceremonial courtroom with oak wainscot paneling.[2] [3]
The building houses the United States Bankruptcy Court District of New Jersey.[4] The building is listed in the state and federal registers of historic places.[1]
The Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse was designated in 1992 honor of federal Judge Mitchell H. Cohen.[5] Completed in 1994 the courthouse's entrance is located on Cooper Street.[2] The seven-story, 180,000-square-foot building includes 12 courtrooms and attendant facilities, Appellate Judge's suites, Grand Jury room, District Clerk's office, US Marshall's Service Administrative office, prisoner holding facility, law library, and secure indoor parking.[6] [7]
In 1999, an addition connecting two wings of the building was created on the second floor of the building. The arriccio, sinopia drawings of the fresco for Ben Shahn's Jersey Homesteads mural (1938) were removed from their original community center location in what has now become Roosevelt and is permanently installed in the custom-designed gallery within it.[8] [9] [10]