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The
1941 Cherokee County courthouse today.
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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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."
Text and Photo Courtesy Arcadia Publishing & the Cherokee Co Historical
Commission |
| "This
photo of the 1889 Cherokee County courthouse hangs in the first floor
hallway of the current courthouse." Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson,
July 2007 |
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." Photo courtesy
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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