jgriff Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 W/the passage of tyme U will get over it.FilioScotia: Please don't get over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMac Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Anyone have any photos of the old historical Bldg. (now removed) formerly located @ the corner of Captol & Bagby, very near the 400 yo Oak tree? Would very much like to view during construction & other misc. photos of same. Respectfully Danny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMac Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Have discovered Harris Cnty had 2 operational court houses during 1945-46. (source: CD {City Directory}) Fannin (curently undergoing restoration) had some 15 court rooms and damned near every Cnty function immaginable. Capitol had 5 court rooms, jail etc. Fannin did not have a jail but both list SO's offices. Still researching when Capitol was built/torn down & was Fannin vacated. Cnty site doesen't have much courthouse history on it so gonna have to relie on CD's for data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Have discovered Harris Cnty had 2 operational court houses during 1945-46. (source: CD {City Directory}) Fannin (curently undergoing restoration) had some 15 court rooms and damned near every Cnty function immaginable. Capitol had 5 court rooms, jail etc. Fannin did not have a jail but both list SO's offices. Still researching when Capitol was built/torn down & was Fannin vacated. Cnty site doesen't have much courthouse history on it so gonna have to relie on CD's for data.Check around the year 1953. That was the year that the new Harris County Courthouse was opened at 301 San Jacinto. In later years, this became the Criminal Courthouse, and several years ago was renovated to become the Juvenile Justice Center. Fannin never really vacated. It was remodeled in 1954 (badly), and continued in service until its current restoration to its original glory.http://wiki.worldflicks.org/harris_county_1910_courthouse.html#coords=%2829.76105485,-95.3597349%29&z=20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMac Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Check around the year 1953. That was the year that the new Harris County Courthouse was opened at 301 San Jacinto. In later years, this became the Criminal Courthouse, and several years ago was renovated to become the Juvenile Justice Center. Fannin never really vacated. It was remodeled in 1954 (badly), and continued in service until its current restoration to its original glory.http://wiki.worldflicks.org/harris_county_1910_courthouse.html#coords=%2829.76105485,-95.3597349%29&z=20Thank you for your response. The attached photo is the old historical domed Courthouse that is currently undergoing preservation. It along w/many Bldg's in the CBD has four addressed entrances as follows: 311 Fannin (official mailing address), 1115 Preston, 312 San Jacinto, & 1115 COngress. FYI, Benjamin J Proctor operated the cigar stand in the lobby of the 1st flr. I am specifically searching for photos of the Capitol str. Courthouse that had the jail occupying the 4th & 5th floors. It was very near the corner od Bagby (600 block) & across the street was city FS #2, a 4 bay house. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57Tbird Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Could this photo from the Bailey collection be what you're looking for? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMac Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Could this photo from the Bailey collection be what you're looking for?Yes, thank U so much. This a good start. Now if I can just find some mo. BTW, might the big tree in the foreground be Houston's 400 yo Oak? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMac Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Circa 1940'-50's Cnty 2 Courthouses in downtown Houston. The 2 specific I have in mind are (1) Criminal Courthouse & Jail facility (8 Flr's.) w/a street address of 624 Bagby @ corner of Capitol w/old 400 yo Hanging Oak Tree in front yard, tree still stands today (2K18). Believe Bldg. was opened in 1927 & torn down sometime during the 60's. At the time (1940) Bldg had some 15 tenets in the Bldg. Source data does not indicate who occupied floors 6-8. Cnty TB Assoc. was next door to it as a sm. stand alone Bldg. (2) Harris Cnty Courthouse (w.Domed roof, remodeled 2K10 and still occupied today) @ 311 Fannnin tween Congress & Preston Str's. Had some 59 tenets in Bldg. at the time (1940). This Bldg is very well documented w/many photos and narrative reports over its century of occupation. The old Historical Bagy/Capitol facility has hardly any recorded history @ all. This is the one I would like to concentrate on and ask for assistance from Peps familiar w/the area at the time. Any photos, stories, narrative reports etc. would be most helpful. Source materials for most of my data: 1945-46 City Directory located @ Houston Metro Research Facility inside 1923 Julia Ideson Bldg. Respectfully DMac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 The Hanging Oak and Hangman’s Grove: Wyatt C Hedrick, a Fort Worth designer, developed plans for a Harris County Criminal Courts and Jail building in 1927 at 624 Bagby Street of eight stories in the Greek classic style for $750,000. The structure rose from a two story red granite course of Grecian fretwork belt to an Indiana limestone cornice. A parapet wall with ornamental stone cresting formed the main entrance of two Doric columns of polished granite supporting an entablature of two-story balustrade portico. The rear façade had a central jutting pavilion extending the full height of the edifice. Granite steps near the immense spreading oak tree (Hanging or Stanley Oak) lead to the main doorway. Prisoners were kept on the fourth floor with the insane and male prisoners on the fifth floor. The eighth floor was reserved for a chapel and exercise room. https://historicalcommission.harriscountytx.gov/Information-Education/Historic-1910-Courthouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 Is this the 400 year old Oak Tree and court house? There were many Harris County court houses and jails. I'm unfamiliar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highrise Tower Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Found more information!! https://www.mrt.com/news/houston-texas/bayou-city-history/article/Throwback-Thursday-to-Houston-s-past-6555118.php#photo-16350059 From the newspaper The Houston Chronicle dated May 25, 1972. This stately live oak tree continues to grow on a parking lot on Rusk between Fannin and San Jacinto, impervious to the march of downtown construction. The tree was planted around 1900 by William D. Cleveland Jr., whose family lived on the site. Cleveland, a cotton merchant who died in 1958 at the age of 85, asked Houston Endowment, Inc., owners of the property, not to cut down the tree. An official said the tree would remain standing as long as the foundation owns the land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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