Morgan Morell
Mr. Brandon Franke
History 1302-N03
13 May, 2014
Harris County Courthouse
Courthouses are a major part of a counties government system. The first thing that comes to mind when we think of a courthouse is normally a judge and jury that is sentencing someone, but there are many things that we actually use a courthouse for. Out of all the courthouses that are still standing in Texas I chose to research about the largest courthouse in Texas.
John Richardson Harris was the founder of Harrisburg. During the Texas Revolution most of Harrisburg was destroyed by the forces of Santa Anna. After the Revolution ended, Houston was founded west of Harrisburg and named the county seat of Harrisburg County and capital of the Republic of Texas. Later on Harrisburg County was shortened to Harris County after the city of Harrisburg was destroyed. The county seat was moved to Houston in 1837 and this is where the courthouse was built for one reason of Houston being a “lively commercial atmosphere”. There were five courthouses in Houston that all occupied the same plot of land that was selected by the founders of Houston, the Allen brothers. The fifth courthouse built was the one that is still used today, started construction in 1909 and was completed that next year in 1910. “Since its official opening on November 15,1910, and dedication on Texas Independence Day on March 2,1911, the Harris County 1910 Courthouse has symbolized strength, justice, good government, and security. The Harris County courthouse is exactly located at the corner of Congress and San Jacinto Street. The address is 49 San Jacinto St #303 Houston, Texas.
The Harris County courthouse was designed by Charles Erwin Barglebaugh. He was an architect from Dallas who ...
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...d feel of the courthouse. “To restore the interior, historic preservationist had to rely on remnants found from the original building, historic photographs, of which there were few, recollections of county residents who worked or visited the courthouse before the remodeling..”. “The 1910 courthouse closed in 2006 and the actual construction phase began in February of 2009.”
The Harris County courthouse is a beautiful and historic building in the heart of downtown Houston. With courthouses being a very important monument for the counties they are also valuable pieces of history that we can learn many things from. After the renovation of the Harris County courthouse the history of the courthouse is going to increase so much more in my opinion. Without John Richardson Harris and the Allen brothers the city of Houston and Harris County would not be what it is today.
In the town of Santa Rosa California, in the county of Sonoma sits a very run down structure in need of either reconstruction or preservation of the remaining structure. Whether they reconstruct the structure or not, it is a prime example of a structure to be added to the National Register of Historic Places. This building is called the Carrillo Adobe and was owned by a woman by the name of Maria Ygnacia de Carrillo. However the site and part of the structure was constructed before Maria Carrillo moved to the area which would later become Santa Rosa, California and constructed the first structure in the town. The foundation was laid by monks of the Franciscan order, as they planned to build the twenty-second mission in California. However the monks moved on to build a mission in the surrounding area. In 1837 Carrillo, who had just become a widow, moved from San Diego County with her children to the area, which was not yet known as Santa Rosa.
Harvey Leroy Sossamon III was denied the ability to use the prison chapels, in the state prison in which he was being held (Oyez.org). Sossamon had been in the Robertson Unit of the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice since 2002 (Fasoro). His claims for use were that of religious purposes, the state prison warden in fact denied all inmates that were cell restricted access to such activities. Sossamon was entitled to the use the chapel, in fact it was in his rights. However the prison inmates were provided with different ways and places to practice their religion. Regardless Sossamon explained that the alternatives were absent of Christian symbol. In fact Sossamon witnessed Muslim inmates receive better treatment (Findlaw.com). This came in the forms of treatment, meals and other necessities. Sossamon also added that the alternatives were noisy from the exterior and unfit for religious worship due in part to bad conditions (Fasoro). Sossamon also confirmed if the inmates did not cease prayer when ordered by the guards they were subjected to retaliation or other physical mistreatment (Findlaw.com).Sossamon to advantage of his Secular activity time and began to study the law. Finally when the inmates were on lockdown, could not participate in religious activities but could still participate in schedule secular activities (Fasoro).
He spent most of the year 1837 in Georgia being feted as a hero and publicizing the new republic. Upon his return to Texas, he organized the Philosophical Society of Texas on December 5, 1837, and found that his campaign for the presidency of Texas was already under way, sponsored by opponents of President Sam Houston, who by law could not succeed himself. At his inauguration on December 10, 1838, Lamar declared the purposes of his administration to be promoting the wealth, talent, and enterprises of the country and laying the foundations of higher institutions for moral and mental culture. Sam Houston matters to Texas because he received the two cannons named Twin Sisters at the plantation just a few days before the Battle of San Jacinto, and was a Great leader, war hero, and one of the founding fathers of Texas.Sam Houston Joined the military and eventually served as a governor of
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...atham Building in 1910, followed by the Thornton Building. Both face the Lawn, adopting a gorgeous red brick Victorian Elizabethan revival style with classical trim. North Court has some surviving original fabric but is now dominated by Gothic work from Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.