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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 |
Confederate
statue
TE photo, 2003 |
A
goddess inscribing the names of Confederate heroes on the Gregg County courthouse
lawn
TE photo, 5-2002 |
Gregg
County courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
More
early views of the 1932 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:
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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