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In Beaumont's
Pipkin Park - a stone's throw from the Jefferson County Courthouse, stands
a rusticated building that resembles a chapel in the English countryside. Except,
in this case, there are no tombstones. It sits on a large open yard.
It is a memorial erected to dead of the First World War by the Daughters
of the American Revolution. |
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Temple to the Brave, Pipkin Park, Beaumont, Texas
Photo by John Troesser |
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date of the dedication - October 18, 1932 corresponds to the day 18 years earlier
when American forces suffered some the heaviest casualties of the war - just a
few days before the armistice of November 11, 1918 was signed.
It's an
understated building with a steep pitched roof that once was made of slate shingles
from the old Jefferson
County Courthouse (1893). The school children of Beaumont contributed $300,
which was spent on re-roofing the building. The roof is now composed of asphalt
composition shingles. It's regretable that material recycled from the old courthouse
was disposed of in favor of an inferior material. Eight tight buttresses line
the sides, framing three small stained glass windows. The wooden doors are fitted
with wrought iron hinges and hardware.
Local Oilman Frank Yount donated
the granite stone from which it is constructed as well as a large stained glass
window on the back (West) wall of the building. The Colonel George Moffett Chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolution donated the Gothic stained-glass windows
in the front.
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| | Across
the Street from the Temple to the Brave
Photo by John Troesser |
The structure
sits across the street from a military docking facility of the Port of Beaumont.
June
2001
© John Troesser
Source: Beaumont Enterprise July 15, 1956 page 9,
Section "C"
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