Palace of Justice

The Palace of Justice, chief of works during 1890-1895, he designed the interiors; he was the in-house architect until 1904 Code no. List of Historical Monuments B-II-m-A-18941. Mincu's school colleague in Paris, A. Ballu, designed the plans for the Palace of Justice in Bucharest and recommended the Romanian architect to coordinate the works and to realize the interior decoration. He was most probably backed up by Eugeniu Stătescu, laywer, politician and minister of Justice. Mincu right hand was the arch. I. Seewaldt, who prepared the economic quotations and pre-measurements. Seewaldt was the brother-in-law of constructor Schmitz who was involved in the works at the National Bank of Romania. In the technical commission in charge of the works other important names of Romanians appeared: arch. Capuțineanu, eng.Vârnav și arch.eng. Nicu Cerchez. Mincu also designed the ceilings and the furniture of the main meeting rooms in the High Court House, the Court of Appeal and Cassation, Court of Assizes, Library and Chancery. A forgotten monument, installed in the Hall of Lost Steps, was the statue of lawyer Mihail Cornea (from the Bar of Ilfov county), made by the Italian sculptor Raffaello Romanelli (1856-1928). Its pedestal, made out of marble and bronze, was designed by Mincu.