Howard County Courthouse (Maryland)
The Howard County Courthouse is a historic building in Ellicott City, Maryland that was the courthouse for Howard County's Circuit Court from 1843 to 2021. Construction of the granite building, designed by Charles Timanus, cost $24,000 and took three years (1840–1843). It is situated on a steep hill once named Capitoline Hill on property purchased from Deborah Disney. It also went by the nickname "Mt. Misery". In 1972, local historian Charles Stein claimed that the heavy granite block construction "should continue in service for centuries". A stone house on Main Street that was used as a temporary courthouse during construction of the permanent courthouse survived until being swept away in the 2018 Ellicott City Flood after a culvert collapsed. In July 2021, the Circuit Court moved to a new building in Columbia, Maryland. Howard County has held public meetings and solicited concepts for reuse of the now-vacant historic courthouse and its surrounding property, but has not formally approved any definite plans. Howard County Circuit Courthouse and administration building By 1870, the Circuit court volume was 91 cases with 14 appeals a month. In 1938 additions were added to the courthouse. On 23 September 1948 a monument to confederate soldiers serving