NRHP: Webster County Courthouse, WCTG
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Webster County Courthouse; WCTG
NRHP Reference #: 81000379
NRHP Listing Date: 19810305
Location
225 W 6th, Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska
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Summary
The Webster County Courthouse was built in 1914. The building, a vitrified brick edifice of three stories, is designed in the Second Renaissance Revival style. Trimmed in stone, with a stone foundation, the symmetrical rectangular building features central projecting pavilions at each of its two side ends and a front, south facade that projects slightly across its entire width from the main block of the building. A high parapet above the wall cornice slopes upward slightly toward the center of each facade. Willa Cather used the courthouse as the setting for the immigrant trials in her novel, One of Ours.
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