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COOKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Cooke County Seat - Gainesville, Texas

Cooke county has had four courthouses:
1911
1878
1853
1850

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Gainesville TX Cooke County Courthouse
The courthouse during the exterior restoration. The exterior was completed and the courthouse rededicated in October of 2006. The interior is also being restored. Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, April, 2006

The Present Cooke County Courthouse - Gainesville, Texas

Date - 1911
Architect - Lang & Witchell
Style - Beaux-Arts
Material - Brick and stone

Photographer's Note:
The current 1911 Cooke County courthouse replaced the 1878 courthouse which burned in 1909. The chief architects, Lang and Witchell, designed similar looking courthouses in Johnson County and Scurry County (later remodeled) around the same time. According to legend, the first Cooke County courthouse, a log structure built in 1850, was destroyed by a steer trying to escape a swarm of flies. - Terry Jeanson, June 27, 2009

Cooke County Courthouse Historical Marker
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Gainesville Texas Cooke county Courthouse today
The 1911 Cooke County Courthouse as it appeared in 2003
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson
Cooke County Courthouse, Gainesville, Texas 1939 photo
Cooke County courthouse as it appeared in 1939
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Gainesville TX Cooke County Courthouse Eagle
Courthouse Eagle
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, April, 2006
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Gainesville TX Cooke County Courthouse Clock and architectural detail
Cooke County Courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, April, 2006
Gainesville TX Cooke County Courthouse Clock tower with copper dome
The central clock tower with copper-clad dome.
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, April, 2006
According to the historical marker, the clocks were not installed until 1920 as a memorial to the first World War. - Terry Jeanson
Skylight of Cooke CountyCourthouse, Gainesville, Texas
Cooke County Courthouse Skylight
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, April, 2006
Skylight of Cooke CountyCourthouse, Gainesville, Texas
Cooke County Courthouse Skylight
Photo by Barclay Gibson, 2005
1911 Cooke County Courthouse, Gainesville, Texas 1920s photo
1911 Cooke County courthouse with large clock tower & undersized clocks
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Cooke County Courthouse, Gainesville, Texas 1930s photo
Cooke County courthouse in the 1930s
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Cooke County Courthouse, Gainesville, Texas late 1930s photo
Cooke County courthouse in the late 1930s
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1911 Gainesville, Texas Cooke County courthouse old postcard
Another view of the 1911 Cooke County Courthouse
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The 1878 Cooke County Courthouse - Gainesville, Texas
1878 Cooke County Courthouse, Gainesville, Texas
The 1878 Cooke County Courthouse
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Cooke County Courthouse Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, April, 2006
Gainesville Tx Civil War Statue
Civil War Memorial on the courthouse lawn
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, April 2009
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