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Grant Street Court
House in Blair
In 1869 the
County Seat was moved from Fort Calhoun to Blair. This brick
structure, located at the corner of 19th & Grant Streets was built
to be used as a school house but was purchased by the county to
service as a Court House. In the late 1880's began a movement
to built a new court house. The Grant Street Court House was
made to look more dilapidated that it really was by attaching props
that appeared to hold the building up.
Scan of Screen Print in Book
Men & Women of Nebraska: A Book of Portraits, Washington Co.
Edition, 1903, Edited by Daniel M. Carr.
Catalog No. WCH-0011
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1894 Plat Map
According to the 1894 Plat
Map, the location of the old Court House in Blair was on
the corner of Grant and Third Streets (present day Grant & 19th Streets).
The site for the present day Courthouse (which was building in 1889) was
lists as "Jail Square".
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