Nassau County Supreme Court

Nassau County Supreme Court
100 Supreme Court Drive
Mineola, New York 11501

Nassau County Supreme Court Website

HISTORY

Nassau and Queens were a single county until the turn of the Twentieth Century, but split when New York City consolidated in 1898. Nassau officially became its own County on January 1, 1899, and contains three towns -- Oyster Bay, North Hempstead, and Hempstead -- as well as two cities and numerous incorporated villages.  

The cornerstone of the original Nassau County Courthouse was laid by Theodore Roosevelt, a resident of Oyster Bay, in July 1900.  After extensive renovations, this first courthouse was renamed the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in 2008, and is now the home of the County legislature.

The Roosevelt Courthouse was the home of the Nassau County Supreme Court from 1900 through 1940. In 1940, a larger building was erected, and held both the Supreme Court and the County Court (which hears cases under $25,000). In 1965, the Supreme Court received a new building, its current home, located at 100 Supreme Court drive.

Resources:

Nassau County, Long Island, in early photographs, 1869-1940

By Bette S. Weidman, Linda B. Martin

Courts and Lawyers of New York 1609-1925,

By Alden Chester, E. Melvin Williams (1925)

LI Biz Blog, Nassau Justices Honored With Portraits

Richard Weir, NY Daily News, Thomas Suozzi praises renovated Nassau County Courthouse (2/28/2008).

Newsday, Time Capsul Unearthed, (1999)

Newsday: Long Island, First Farmers, Then Lawyers

Newsday, Falling Down on the Job / Years of neglect leave Nassau Co. facilities in decay (2001)

NY Times, Bids Are Opened for the Construction of A New Court House for Nassau County (Dec. 21, 1938).

NY Historical Society, Nassau County Supreme Court;

NY Times, THE GOVERNOR AT MINEOLA.; He Lays the Cornerstone of the New Court House and Talks of Honesty in Public Life. (July 14, 1900).