Across Market Street from the Market House was the new court house. It was the pride of the western country, and the only high building in the town. It was a square, two-story brick structure with one-story wings, for the county offices, and was surmounted by a tall wooden spire. In 1800, the main building was barely completed, some of the upper rooms being yet unplastered, although the county offices had been removed to the wings two years before.[266] The belfry lacked the bell; and the space before the building was only then being paved. The main entrance was on Market Street, and on either side of the doorway were fluted wooden columns with Corinthian capitals. The court room was on the first floor and was paved with bricks which, like the brick used in the pavement outside, were large and almost square. Supporting the ceiling were Doric pillars resting upon square panelled pedestals.[267] The judges’ bench and the jury box were in the rear of the court room. They faced the entrance, and the judges’ bench admitted seating the president judge and the four lay associate judges, at one time. It was elevated above the floor and was reached by stairs placed at the northerly end. The jury box was southerly of the judges’ bench, with a narrow passage between it and the judges’ bench. After the bell was placed in the belfry in 1801, Joseph Harris became bell-ringer, and rang the bell whenever court was about to convene. Back of the court house, one hundred and forty feet west of the West Diamond, and running parallel with it, was an alley, now called Delray Street. On the westerly side of this alley, a short distance south of Diamond Alley, was the new square two-story stone county jail. It was erected on a lot purchased by Allegheny County in 1793, and was completed at the same time as the court house. The building was surrounded by a stone wall, the entire lot being enclosed by a high board fence. Immediately in the rear of the court house, at the southwest corner of the West Diamond and Diamond Alley, was the tavern of John Reed at the “Sign of the Waggon.” Here the Allegheny County courts held a few sessions, during the interval between the time of leaving William Irwin’s house, and the completion of the court house.[268] At the northeast corner of Market Street and the North Diamond, was the tavern of Thomas Ferree at the “Sign of the Black Bear.” Directly across Market Street in the new brick building, was the boot and shoemaking establishment of John and Alexander Wills.[269] On the same side of the street, the second door south of Fifth Street, was James Yeaman’s brick building, in which he conducted his bakery and brewery.[270] REFERENCES CHAPTER VII [233] THOMAS LLOYD. _The Trial of Alexander Addison, Esq._, Lancaster, 1803, pp. 1–168.