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| 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
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The
1911 Cooke County Courthouse as it appeared in 2003
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson |
Cooke
County courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
Cooke
County Courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, April, 2006 |
The
central clock tower with copper-clad dome.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, April, 2006 |
Cooke
County Courthouse Skylight
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, April, 2006 |
1911 Cooke County courthouse with large clock tower & undersized clocks
1920s Postcard
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Cooke
County courthouse in the 1930s
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Cooke
County courthouse in the late 1930s
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Another
view of the 1911 Cooke County Courthouse
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/
%7Etxpstcrd/ |
The
1878 Cooke County Courthouse
1908
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
Cooke
County Courthouse Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, April, 2006 |
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