Colfax County is rich with natural attributes and a diverse cultural history. The citizens value the rural lifestyle of their community and the Judicial Center architecture acknowledges and respects these characteristics. The Center reflects a solemn sense of dignity, wisdom and honor appropriate to the locale and function. Like traditional robed judicial dress, the facility respectfully and symbolically adorns dominating black masonry facades, which are also reminiscent of bitumen deposits mined in the region. The first phase includes the Courts and Sheriff’s Headquarters, while the second phase comprises the District Attorney’s Office and an EOC.