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Angelina County Courthouse
County Seat - Lufkin, Texas
The Present
Angelina County Courthouse
Date - 1955
Architect - Wilbur Kent
Style - Modern
Material - Brick, limestone and steel
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The
1955 Angelina County Courthouse
Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Angelina County
is named after an Indian girl who became an enthusiastic convert of
the Franciscan missionaries. A bronze statue across from the Museum
of East Texas honors her.
Remembering
a Courthouse by Bob Bowman
"[I]n the l950s, many Texas counties threw aside history, tradition
and elegance and replaced some of our finest courthouses with modern
buildings -- many of them with little character or appeal. That happened
in my home town of Lufkin.
The Angelina County Commissioners Court decided that its fifty-year
old courthouse, resplendent with a dome and a clock, was inadequate
to meet the county's needs. Following a bond election to fund a new
courthouse, the county demolished the old courthouse without ceremony
in 1953." ... more
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The
razed 1903 Angelina County Courthouse
1939 photo courtesy of TXDoT |
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The
demolished Angelina County courthouse as it appears in a downtown
Lufkin mural by Lance Hunter
Photo by John Troesser, 2002 |
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