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Dallas County Courthouse
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Texas State Antiquities Landmark
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Dallas County Courthouse in 2011
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Location	100 S. Houston St., Dallas, Texas
Coordinates	32°46′45″N 96°48′25″W / 32.77917°N 96.80694°W / 32.77917; -96.80694
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1891 (1891)
Architect	Orlopp & Kusener
Architectural style	Romanesque
Website	Old Red Museum of Dallas County History & Culture
Part of	Dealey Plaza Historic District (#93001607) Westend Historic District (ID78002918)
NRHP reference No.	76002019
TSAL No.	8200000203
RTHL No.	6811
DLMKHD No.	H/2 (West End HD)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 12, 1976
Designated NHLDCP	April 19, 1993
Designated CP	November 14, 1978
Designated TSAL	January 1, 1981
Designated RTHL	1977
Designated DLMKHD	October 6, 1975

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. Also known as the Old Red Courthouse, it became the Old Red Museum, a local history museum, in 2007. In 2021, it was announced that the Old Red Museum would be moving out and the building is being returned into a hall of justice. The Texas Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is moving into Old Red (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. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed the courthouse minutes before his assassination on November 22, 1963. In 1966, the courthouse was replaced by a newer building nearby. On December 12, 1976, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2005–2007 the building was renovated.

Gallery

• Museum interior
• Early Years Gallery
• Trading Center Gallery
• Big "D" Gallery
• World Crossroads Gallery
• Children's Education Center
• Dallas County Courthouse postcard, circa 1909

See also

• List of county courthouses in Texas
• List of Dallas Landmarks
• List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas
• Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Dallas County

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. Staff (August 4, 2016). "West End Historic District" (PDF). Department of Urban Planning, City of Dallas. p. 3. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
3. https://www.oldred.org/
4. "Dallas County's Old Red Courthouse Will Soon Be a Courthouse Again". D Magazine. September 23, 2021. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
5. Texas Escapes: Texas Courthouses: Dallas County
6. "Old Red Courthouse". Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
7. flickr photo and text on Old Dallas County Courthouse
8. Images of Old Red Courthouse

External links

• Media related to Old Red Museum at Wikimedia Commons

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