Jefferson County Courthouse (Madras, Oregon)

Title: Jefferson County Courthouse (Madras, Oregon)
LC Subject: Architecture, American Architecture--United States
Alternative: Madras City Hall (Madras, Oregon) Old Jefferson County Courthouse (Madras, Oregon) City Hall (Madras, Oregon)
Creator: Wilson, Guy H. Brubaker, O. G
Photographer: Ross, Marion Dean
Creator Display: O. G. (Orel Gilbert) Brubaker (architect, 1861-1925) Guy Herman Wilson (builder/contractor, 1885-1978)
Description: National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2015) The Jefferson County Courthouse was originally constructed in 1917 as the Madras City Hall. A formal agreement in 1919 established shared occupancy of the building by city government and county offices and court. A new courthouse was built a block away in 1961. The architect, Oregon Gilbert Brubaker, was born in 1861 in Indiana and died Dec. 3, 1925 in Brookings, Oregon.
View: exterior
Provenance: Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Temporal: 1910-1919
Work Type: architecture (object genre) built works views (visual works) exterior views halls, city courthouses county courthouses
Location: Jefferson County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States Madras >> Jefferson County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 34 Southeast D Street, Madras, Oregon
Date: 1917
View Date: 1978-07-01
Identifier: mdr
Item Locator: mdr04420
Rights: In Copyright
Rights Holder: University of Oregon
Source: Gift of Wallace K. Huntington from the estate of Marion Dean Ross
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Set: Building Oregon
Primary Set: Building Oregon
Institution: University of Oregon