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Douglas County Courthouse
Artist: Hughes, Langston
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Douglas County Court House, 1100 Massachusetts St. (1904)
Langston Hughes’s mother Carrie Langston Hughes worked for Douglas County as a Deputy District Court Clerk in 1896, after she graduated from Emporia Normal School. Her employer was African American Sherman Harvey, the County Clerk. However, the office was housed in another building at the time.
This 1904 building houses Douglas County offices. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, would have known this courthouse building when he was a child.
John G. Haskell, brother of the senator Dudley, designed the building with Frederick C. Gunn. The building is Romanesque Revival architectural style. Native limestone blocks are the main building material. It typifies Haskell’s style as seen in several buildings throughout town.