Jefferson County Courthouse (Monticello, Florida) Jefferson County Courthouse (Monticello, Florida) The Jefferson County Courthouse is an historic Classical Revival style courthouse building located in Monticello, Florida. Built in 1909, it was designed by Georgia-born American architect Edward Columbus Hosford, who is noted for the courthouses and other buildings that he designed in Florida, Georgia and Texas. The builder was Mutual Construction Company of Louisville, Kentucky whose bid for the project was $39,412. It was modeled on President Thomas Jefferson’s famous house, Monticello, for which the town is named. The motto, "Suum Cuique", Latin for "To each his own", which is inscribed over the doors of
Suum cuique of the Order of the Black Eagle (German: "Hoher Orden vom Schwarzen Adler"; founded in 1701), the highest order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Prussia. The motto continues in use in Germany - in the insignia of the military police (the Feldjäger) and in association with the Berlin-based Masonic Lodge, "Black Eagle Lodge" (German: "Johannisloge Zum schwarzen Adler"). The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland uses the motto "Suum cuique". The phrase also serves as the motto of the Faculties of Law at Lund University and Uppsala University in Sweden, as well as the Faculty of Law of Federal University