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Cherokee County
Courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, July 2007 |
The Present
Cherokee County Courthouse
Date - 1941
Architect - Gill and Bennett, Inc.
Style - Moderne
Material - stone
Annex built in 1955 |
Cherokee County
Courthouse as it appeared in 1941
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
A later view
of the Cherokee County Courthouse
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
Photographer's
Note:
"About five or six years ago, a Cherokee
County inmate was enlisted to create a
mural of the history of Cherokee County on the upper floor of
the courthouse. The mural extends from the east to the west side of
the building and is, mostly, in chronological order. The ground floor
also contains portraits of famous Texans, famous
Cherokee County residents and local heroes..." |
The
1889 Cherokee County Courthouse
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"In 1921,
Civil War Veterans gathered for this photograph opportunity outside
the third courthouse building... The building was used from 1890 until
1926, when an office addition was built on the north side."
Courtesy Arcadia Publishing & Cherokee Co Hist Commission |
"This photo
of the 1889 Cherokee County courthouse hangs in the first floor hallway
of the current courthouse."
- Terry
Jeanson, July 2007 photo |
Photographer's
Note:
"The caption below the picture reads as follows:
THIRD COURTHOUSE - Cherokee
County's third courthouse, a brick one with clock tower, was completed
in 1889 on the same site as all previous and later ones. Photo shows
the remodeling work underway with part of the clock tower removed.
The many-gabled roof was also changed to a flat one in this remodeling
work. Note the many chimneys in this building required for stoves
in the offices on all floors and the courtroom in the center of the
building. Central heat and air-conditioning were not invented when
this photo was taken. Note that the soldier in the monument to Cherokee
County's Civil War soldiers was holding a full-barreled rifle,
but in later remodeling, the rifle barrel was broken. The barrel pieces
were lost in the courthouse, so it has never been repaired and is
one of the few of this era lacking a complete rifle for the veteran.
Photo from Cherokee County Historical Commission Archives." |
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"This photo
of the remodeled 1889 Cherokee County courthouse hangs in the first
floor hallway of the current courthouse."
- Terry
Jeanson, July 2007 |
Photographer's
Note:
"The caption below it reads as follows:
COUNTY COURTHOUSE - Cherokee
County's Courthouse, Rusk, as it
appeared after one of several remodelings and updatings from the days
of the log structure erected on the same site in 1847 after Cherokee
County was carved out of old Nacogdoches County by order of the Texas
Legislature on April 11, 1846. This remodeling project removed the
steeple and clock from the structure. The building was stuccoed also
but retained four entrances. The monument to the county's Civil War
veterans was dedicated Nov. 11, 1921, after a county-wide fund-raising
covered the cost. It remains the only monument to Civil War veterans
in the county, a county which provided more than 2,000 men for the
South in that war. The monument was moved to its present spot a short
distance away in another courthouse remodeling project. This courthouse
has always been called the "1926 courthouse" because the work was
finished in that year.
Photo from Cherokee County Historical Commission Archives." |
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