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Date - 1932
Architect - Voelcker and Dixon
Style - Art Deco
Material - Brick, terra cotta & marble |
"The 1932
Gregg County courthouse today.
A large modern addition is attached to the western side of the building."
- Terry
Jeanson, December 2007 photo |
Gregg County
Courthouse architectural detail
TE photo, 5-2002 |
Gregg County
courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
| Postcard
courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
Another early
view of the 1932 Gregg County Courthouse
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
Confederate statue
TE photo, 2003 |
A goddess inscribing
the names of Confederate soldiers
TE photo, 5-2002 |
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Photographer's
Note:
"Photo of the former courthouse in the basement of the current
courthouse. The caption below the photo read as follows:
1897 COURTHOUSE - The second courthouse built on Block No.
9 was accepted by the Commissioners Court on November 24, 1897. This
courthouse was designed by Marshall R. Sanguinet or Fort
Worth, Texas. Mr. Sanguinet was famous for his courthouse designs.
The structure was built by G. W. Donaghey on the site of the 1879
courthouse, in the middle of the block. This Romanesque style building
was made of dark red brick, giving rise to later Gregg
County residents referring to it as "The Old Red Courthouse".
It was a two-story building with a three-story tower contiguous with
the extended entrance which had a small turret at each corner. The
remainder of the roof was gabled. It utilized some of the native sandstone,
re-finished, from the previous courthouse. It also had some of the
white limestone from the earlier building above the windows and over
the arched entrance. The courthouse had four chimneys."
- Terry
Jeanson, December 2007 |
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1897 Gregg County
Courthouse
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
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Photographer's
Note:
"Photo of the former courthouse in the basement of the current
courthouse. The caption below the photo read as follows:
1879 COURTHOUSE - The first courthouse built on this site,
Block No. 9, was designed by Frederick Ernst Ruffini of Austin,
Texas. Ruffini and his brother, Oscar, designed several courthouses,
jails, banks, stores and homes all over Texas. John McDonald built
this structure at a cost of $13,447.00. The courthouse displayed Second
Empire features with both Roman and stilted arches, pilasters of colossal
order with carved capitols, and cut stonework around the entrance.
A strongly profiled stringcourse at the base of these pilasters created
a base for the first story. Pilasters below this were rusticated,
as if to create the effect of stone construction. A dominant tower
housed four clock faces and a bell. Native sandstone from nearby Methvin
Hill was used in portions of the building."
- Terry
Jeanson, December 2007 |
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1879 Gregg County
Courthouse
Photo courtesy THC |
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