Webster County courthouse - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

This stone trimmed brick courthouse stands in large square near the historic center of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Willa Cather, a Red Cloud native, used the courthouse as the setting for immigrant trials in her Pulitzer Prize novel, 'One of Ours"

The opening of Chapter IX, Book One, "One of Ours"
"One bright June day Mr. Wheeler parked his car in a line of motors before the new pressed-brick Court house ....... The Court house stood in an open square, surrounded by a grove of cotton-woods."

Street address: 621 N Cedar St Red Cloud, NE USA 68970 County / Borough / Parish: Webster Year listed: 1981 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Person, Literature, Event, Architecture/Engineering , government Periods of significance: 1875-1949 Historic function: Government Current function: Government Season start / Season finish: From: 01/01/2008 To: 12/31/2008 Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Privately owned?: Not Listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 1: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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