Albert E. French designed this two-and-a-half story brick and stone courthouse, completed in 1890, with influences of Richardsonian architecture and many of its original Victorian furnishings still maintained. Peter and Maria Cowdry donated the land for the courthouse square on the condition that it would revert to their heirs if it was no longer used for a courthouse. Local citizens gave the clock to the county as a gift, and in 1976 the people of Livingston County voted to restore the courthouse, an area landmark.