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Dallas County Courthouse

Dallas, US

Dallas County Courthouse

The Dallas County Courthouse, built in 1892 of red sandstone with rusticated marble accents, is a historic governmental building located at 100 South Houston Street in Dallas, Texas. Four of five previous courthouse structures were destroyed by fire. Also known as the Old Red Courthouse, it became t

he Old Red Museum, a local history museum, in 2007. In 2021, it was announced that the Old Red Museum would be moving out and that the building would again be a hall of justice. The Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals moved into Old Red in 2024. It was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture by architect Max A. Orlopp Jr. of the Little Rock, Arkansas based firm Orlopp & Kusener. Four of five previous courthouse structures were destroyed by fire, which is one reason why the building was constructed using masonry and cubic stone. In 1904, the famed prohibition activist Carrie Nation gave a fiery lecture on temperance inside one of the courtrooms, attracting a crowd that overflowed into the hallways. In 1910, the courthouse was the site of the lynching of Allen Brooks. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed the courthouse minutes before his assassination on...

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