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Gage County Courthouse is a historic courthouse for
Gage County, Nebraska Gage County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 21,704. Its county seat is Beatrice, Nebraska, Beatrice. The county was created in 1855 and organized in 1857. ...
in the county seat of
Beatrice, Nebraska Beatrice () is a city in and the county seat of Gage County, Nebraska, United States. Its population was 12,459 at the 2010 census. Beatrice is located approximately 25 miles south of Lincoln on the Big Blue River and is surrounded by agricultu ...
at 612 Grant Street. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on January 10, 1990. It was built from 1890 until 1892 in a
Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...
architectural style. It was renovated in 2008. The building was designed by Gunn and Curtiss (
Frederick C. Gunn Frederick C. Gunn was an American architect. In the firm of Gunn & Curtiss with Louis Singleton Curtiss he helped design several county courthouses. Gunn was born in Atchison, Kansas, in 1865 and grew up there until his family moved to Kansas Ci ...
and
Louis Singleton Curtiss Louis Singleton Curtiss (July 1, 1865 – June 24, 1924) was a Canadian-born American architect. Notable as a pioneer of the curtain wall design, he was once described as "the Frank Lloyd Wright of Kansas City".Kansas City Public Library"The Fran ...
) and M.T. Murphy was the building contractor.


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1890 establishments in Nebraska Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska Government buildings completed in 1890 National Register of Historic Places in Gage County, Nebraska {{Nebraska-NRHP-stub