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Look Back: Old County Courthouse, 1878

Date: 4/15/2011

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Photo by St.Louis Post-Dispatch photographers and the Missouri History Museum

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The 1878 courthouse had two courtrooms and 17 other rooms, and soon was too small for the county's growing population. The county had only about 30,000 residents in 1878. It had grown to almost 274,000 by January 1939, when Clayton building commissioner Alden B. Park posted this sign warning that part of the courthouse was unsafe. From 1925 to 1945, county voters defeated several proposals to build a new one. In 1945, they approved $1.6 million for a new courthouse, to be built in front of the original on Forsyth Boulevard. (Post-Dispatch)

Caption: The 1878 courthouse had two courtrooms and 17 other rooms, and soon was too small for the county's growing population. The county had only about 30,000 residents in 1878. It had grown to almost 274,000 by January 1939, when Clayton building commissioner Alden B. Park posted this sign warning that part of the courthouse was unsafe. From 1925 to 1945, county voters defeated several proposals to build a new one. In 1945, they approved $1.6 million for a new courthouse, to be built in front of the original on Forsyth Boulevard. (Post-Dispatch) Album ID: 1226632 Photo ID: 35245296

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