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Gillespie County
courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, November, 2007 |
The Present
Gillespie County Courthouse
- Fredericksburg
Date - 1939
Architect - Edward Stein
Style - Moderne
Material - Brick |
Gillespie County
Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
The 1939 courthouse
decorated for Christmas
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, December, 2004 |
Another early
view of the Gillespie County Courthouse
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
The Former
Gillespie County Courthouse c.1882
- Fredericksburg
Now used as the
Gillespie County Library.
On the Public Square near the current courthouse.
Designed by Alfred Giles, English Architect turned Texas Sheep Rancher
"...with its formal balance, heavy decorative consoles, and Classical
roof slopes, [it possesses] the dignity characteristic of Renaissance
Revival buildings." - Williard B. Robinson, Texas Public Buildings
of the Nineteenth Century |
The 1882 Gillespie
County courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, January 2006 |
Another view
of the 1882 Gillespie County Courthouse
Postcard circa 1930 courtesy THC |
Eagles carved
out of an old tree on the grounds between the 1882 and 1939 courthouses.
November, 2007 Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson |
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