File:Tioga County Courthouse, Owego, New York - 20220206.jpg

English: Tioga County Courthouse, 20 Court Street, Owego, New York, February 2022. Completed in 1872 to a design by locally-based architect Miles F. Howe. the courthouse occupies about half of what was once the Village Park. Unusually for the Second Empire style, bluntly pointed arches are a recurring motif: you see them not only on the prominent limestone window heads above the double arched windows on the three-story towers that delineate the building's four corners, but also crowning the façade itself in the form of a raking cornice undergirded by block modillions. Even more unusual is the absence of a mansard roof, ordinarily the style's defining feature. The entrance is framed consecutively by a round arch of cut limestone and a shallow tetrastyle portico with stylized Corinthian pillars. The interior, too, is architecturally notable for its fine-quality woodwork, including chestnut wainscoting on the walls as well as window frames and furnishings in black walnut.