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[Third Anderson County Courthouse]

Description: Copy negative of the third Anderson County Courthouse in Palestine, Texas. It is a two-story brick building with stone accents and a taller tower on one corner. A gazebo is visible on the grounds, to the right, and several unidentified people are standing near one corner of the building.
Date: [1885..1916]

[Reagan School - 400 S. Michaux]

Description: Photograph of the front and north side of the Reagan School located at 400 S. Michaux in Palestine, Texas. The three-story brick building has Tudor Revival-style architectural features and served as a school for various grades between 1916 and 1976, later becoming a museum. There are people visible on the lawn and automobiles visible in the front and near the side of the building.
Date: 1920~

[I&GN Railroad Hospital - 919 S. Magnolia]

Description: Photograph of the front and north side of the International & Great Northern (I&GN) Railroad Hospital located at 919 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a three-story, metal-framed, brick-faced hospital along with an outbuilding (the Nurses' Home). The building has a box-like massing with some Classical Revival detailing, especially around the primary entrance. The wide, cast stone bands divide the exterior into three components and emphasize the horizontal massing of the building.
Date: 1940~

[Anderson County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of the southwest corner of the Anderson County Courthouse, located at 500 N. Church in Palestine, Texas. The three-story building has Classical Revival-style elements including Ionic columns across the front. There is a dome topped with a statue of Lady Justice in the center of the roof and there are awnings on all of the windows.
Date: 1950~

[I&GN Railroad Hospital - 919 S. Magnolia]

Description: Copy negative of the front and north side of the International & Great Northern (I&GN) Railroad Hospital located at 919 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a three-story, metal-framed, brick-faced hospital along with an outbuilding (the Nurses' Home), visible on the right side of the image. The building has a box-like massing with some Classical Revival detailing, especially around the primary entrance. The wide, cast stone bands divide the exterior into three components and emphasize the ho… more
Date: 1960~

[I&GN Railroad Hospital - 919 S. Magnolia]

Description: Photograph of part of the front of the International & Great Northern (I&GN) Railroad Hospital located at 919 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a three-story, metal-framed, brick-faced hospital along with an outbuilding (the Nurses' Home). The building has a box-like massing with some Classical Revival detailing, especially around the primary entrance. The wide, cast stone bands divide the exterior into three components and emphasize the horizontal massing of the building.
Date: 1970~

[Interior of the Carnegie Library - Palestine]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Carnegie Building, taken when the Palestine Public Library was housed there, located at 502 N. Queen in Palestine, Texas. The image shows a room filled with free-standing shelving filled with books. There is an arched window in the background and several pamphlet boxes are visible on the shelves in the foreground.
Date: 1970~

[Interior of the Carnegie Library - Palestine]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Carnegie Building, taken when the Palestine Public Library was housed there, located at 502 N. Queen in Palestine, Texas. The image shows a room in the foreground that has bookcases along the walls and cassette tapes stacked on free-standing shelves in the center of the room. In the background, a second room filled with more bookshelves is visible through arched entryways, separated by a corridor.
Date: 1970~

[Interior of the Carnegie Library - Palestine]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Carnegie Building, taken when the Palestine Public Library was housed there, located at 502 N. Queen in Palestine, Texas. The image shows one corner of a room in the library that has shelves filled with books; paintings are propped on top of the shelving. There are two unidentified women; one is pulling a book off the shelves and the other is seated at a table in the foreground, writing on pads of paper.
Date: 1970~

[Interior of the Carnegie Library - Palestine]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Carnegie Building, taken when the Palestine Public Library was housed there, located at 502 N. Queen in Palestine, Texas. The image is a close-up of architectural details around the arched entrance to a room in the building. Moulding around the edge of ceiling is visible at the top of the photo as well as columns on either side of the entrance and an arched window in the background.
Date: 1970~

[John H. Reagan Bust in the Carnegie Library - Palestine]

Description: Close-up photograph of a bust of John H. Reagan on a bookcase inside the Carnegie Building, taken when the Palestine Public Library was housed there, located at 502 N. Queen in Palestine, Texas. Part of the library is visible in the background, including shelving in one corner of the room filled with books and wooden tables. An unidentified woman is looking at books on the shelves.
Date: 1970~

[Anderson County Courthouse]

Description: Photograph of the south side of the Anderson County Courthouse, located at 500 N. Church in Palestine, Texas, taken from the corner of N. Perry and E. Crawford streets. The three-story building has Classical Revival-style elements including Ionic columns across the front. There is a dome topped with a statue of Lady Justice in the center of the roof.
Date: 1991
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
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