How Our Courthouse Came to Be

Part 3 - Construction
  • How Our Courthouse Came to Be
    How Our Courthouse Came to Be
  • The new courthouse, finished in 1912. Victorian flower beds flank the front entrance. The Pawnee City Opera House looms in the background.
    The new courthouse, finished in 1912. Victorian flower beds flank the front entrance. The Pawnee City Opera House looms in the background.
    After about a decade of controversy, with numerous attempts to secure bonds for building a new courthouse, a bond for $85,000 passed in November 1910. Pawnee County would be getting its new courthouse.Architects vied for the job of designing the new courthouse, 14 of them. The board of commissioners chose W. F. Gernandt and Company of Fairbury, Nebraska, who had designed courthouses alre...

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