Talk:Red Willow County Courthouse

Windows
User:Doncram: This courthouse has very nice windows. If we can find enough sources, I think we should add a subsection about them.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:34, 10 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi, hmm, yes it does, from seeing one b&w pic with the NRHP doc, and the 3 in the commons category. NRHP doc mentions just three art glass panels, on the landing of its staircase.  I can imagine that arrangement.  These could be more important works perhaps than the WPA murals in post offices, say.  What can be said?  One is a personification of Goddess of Justice (redirects to Lady Justice).  No info on artist(s) from NRHP doc, which makes it harder to find other information. Nothing much pops up in the MPS document about Nebraska courthouses.


 * I also found:
 * Book recounts 1973 macabre murder, trial and conviction in Nebraska ...: "Aug 22, 2015 - The murders occurred in Red Willow County and so the legal proceedings were in the McCook District Court. As one leaves the McCook District Courtroom, one is struck by the view of a magnificent stained glass window, ..." (but I can't immediately see the whole article, maybe you might find your way in?)


 * Big Daddy Dave says "This solid looking classic revival structure is the Red Willow County Courthouse. McCook is the Red Willow County seat.  McCook became the second county seat in 1896.  McCook residents built a courthouse on the present site that served the county until 1927.  In 1926 the county passed a bond issue to finance this new courthouse.  Construction began the same year and the Classical Revival-style building was completed in 1927.  From what I’ve read, the interior of this structure is quite classy…with art glass windows, top quality woodwork, marble stairs and fancy plaster work…"


 * Hmm, I am not finding much to support more than brief mention in this article. But why not a gallery of the three pics? --Doncram (talk) 21:35, 10 May 2019 (UTC)


 * And further I wonder, a bit, if the 3 windows are not original unique works by an artist. What if they were just ordered from a catalog?  I don't myself know anything about mass-produced stained glass / art glass windows being a thing one could buy, now or back when these were installed in the courthouse.  Just maybe they are not all that special, I don't know.  Even if they are not unique, it could be worth covering them.  We certainly do cover the Queen Anne style details (balasters, porch pillars, etc.) in many houses which were just shipped in.  And some whole houses listed on the NRHP are from kits:  Sears catalog house kits, for example.  Lustron houses, for which we just explain about which model out of relatively few was chosen. --Doncram (talk) 20:10, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It is possible--I don't know. We need to find more sources.Zigzig20s (talk) 21:39, 11 May 2019 (UTC)