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Morton Museum of Cooke County (Gainesville City Hall, Fire Station, Jail)

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1884, J. J. Kane. 210 S. Dixon St.

Designed by Fort Worth architect Kane, the red brick city hall was originally two stories tall, with a tower at the front corner. The fire station occupied the ground floor, the jail to the rear, and the city offices were on the second floor. After a new fire station (see DD18) was built in 1918, the building’s second floor and tower were removed in 1933. What was left was threatened with demolition in 1966, but, instead, saved by the Cooke County Heritage Society, it opened as a museum in 1968.

Facing the former City Hall at 215 S. Dixon Street is the red brick and tile-roofed Cooke County Community Correction Center (1915), built as the Cooke County Jail.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Gainesville Municipal Building
Cooke County Courthouse
Butterfield Stage (Carnegie Library)
South Gainesville Residential District
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Morton Museum of Cooke County (Gainesville City Hall, Fire Station, Jail)", [Gainesville, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-DD19.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 238-238.

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