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The U.S. Custom House in Galveston is a simply detailed Classical Revival, two-story, brick building located near the waterfront in Galveston. The most notable features are the projecting double gallery on the west facade and the inset double galleries on the longer, north and south facades. The exterior walls are hard-fired, red-brown bricks ...
Galveston County (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas, located along the Gulf Coast adjacent to Galveston Bay. As of the 2020 census , its population was 350,682. [ 1 ]
Rosenberg Library, a public library located at 2310 Sealy Street in Galveston, Texas, United States, is the oldest continuously operating library in Texas. It serves as headquarters of the Galveston County Library System, and its librarian is also the Galveston County Librarian. [2]
Galveston County was established in 1838. A courthouse building was erected in 1898. Another was built in 1966. Tibor Beerman was the primary architect. [2] The current courthouse building is known as the Galveston County Justice Center and was dedicated in 2006. [1] Dignified Resignation statue erected at the courthouse in 1911
The oldest federal civil building in Texas, the 1861 Customs and Courthouse in Galveston, once housed the Southern District of Texas. Federal Courthouse in Galveston that housed the court & its predecessor, from 1891–1917 [2] Since its foundation, the Southern District of Texas has been served by forty-one District Judges and six Clerks of Court.
Location of Galveston County in Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Galveston County, Texas. There are 10 districts, 73 individual properties, and four former properties listed on the National Register in the county.
High Island is an unincorporated community located in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, Galveston County, Texas, United States.The community is located in the extreme eastern part of the county on Bolivar Peninsula, less than one mile from Chambers County and less than two miles from Jefferson County.
The Kress building in Houston, Texas, 2020 Kress store building in Lubbock, Texas showing the characteristic design A Kress building in Tampa, Florida. Kress opened his first stationery and notions store in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, in 1887. The chain of S. H. Kress & Co. 5-10-25 Cent Stores was established in 1896 in Memphis, Tennessee.