File:Exterior view of the Santa Ana (Orange County) Court House, 1905 (CHS-5367).jpg

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Exterior view of the Santa Ana (Orange County) Court House, 1905
Photograph of the exterior view of the Santa Ana (Orange County) Court House, 1905. The building is about three-stories tall and features dormer windows, stone masonry walls, a square tower, and pointed roofs. Trees line the sidewalks around the building.; "The landmark Old Orange County Courthouse is Southern California's oldest court building and is one of the few remaining buildings in the region in the Romanesque Revival style. From its construction in 1901, this granite and sandstone building has been the traditional home of county government. Today the 30,000-square foot building has been restored to look much as it had at the turn of the last century. The building contains the Orange County History Center (which includes the Old Courthouse Museum, the Orange County Archives, and the library of the Pacific Coast Archaeological Society) as well as government offices. The building is on the National Register of Historic places and is a State of California Historic Landmark." -- unknown author.; "In 1893 the newly created County of Orange purchased the land where the Old Courthouse sits from William Spurgeon, the founder of Santa Ana, for the express purpose of building a permanent courthouse. But the first building constructed on that parcel was not a courthouse but the county jail, which opened in 1897. Not until 1900 did the County Board of Supervisors commission the design of a courthouse by Los Angeles architect Charles Strange. His design was remarkably similar to that of a county courthouse in Iowa, a point not lost on the early residents of Orange County, many of whom had immigrated from the Midwest. The new courthouse was to be the most impressive building in early twentieth century Orange County. After seventeen months of construction, the building was formally dedicated in November of 1901. It housed most of the functions of County government. Superior court required just one courtroom, but by 1914 the addition of a second courtroom was required. As the populations of Orange County and the rest of Southern California grew, the Old Courthouse was inadequate for all of the needs of local government. Additional buildings were constructed, and nearby hotels and churches were rented for offices and courtrooms. Despite several proposals to remodel and expand the old Courthouse, the building remained essentially unchanged." -- unknown author (part 1 of 2).; "The Old Courthouse was the scene of several important and far reaching court cases. In People vs. Termo Corporation (1993), the bench ruled that the State of California was entitled to royalties for easements for offshore oil drilling. In 1941, the court found for the plaintiff in Irvine Co. vs. California Employment Commission, holding that all employees of a large farm enterprise were still considered agricultural labor and thus exempt from the Unemployment Insurance Act. During one of the most trials of its era, People of California v. Gollum and Overell (1947), hundreds of people flocked to the Old Courthouse for a glimpse of one of the defendants. Others waited in line for a chance to sit in the audience section of the courtroom. Though the trial resulted in an acquittal of the defendants, new regulations for the sale and purchase of explosives were enacted. The courts left the Old Courthouse in 1969 for a new and larger facility on Civic Center Drive in Santa Ana. Soon, the Old Courthouse was recognized for its historical significance, and was designated a California State Historic Landmark and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1983, restoration construction began on the Old Courthouse, a project that was completed in 1992." -- unknown author (part 2 of 2).
Call number: CHS-5367
Filename: CHS-5367
Coverage date: 1905
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Santa Ana; Santa Ana
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5367
Microfiche number: 1-52-
Archival file: chs_Volume61/CHS-5367.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): court houses
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1905
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Orange County -- Santa Ana -- Architecture
Legacy record ID: chs-m7834; USC-1-1-1-7962
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Orange
Subject (lcsh): Courthouses; Views
Subject: Santa Ana Court House
Date (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/8067
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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