McCook hotel accomodations in 1897

Friday, December 6, 2019

Before I get to the point, I want to clear up something I wrote about a while back. When McCook became the county seat of Red Willow County, the courthouse had not been built yet, but the records had to go somewhere. I thought that they were housed in the building on the corner of Norris and West C Street, but when researching an entirely different subject, I referred back to the 1889 Sanborn Map of McCook and found that the Phillips-Meeker building was what I now refer to as the Hansen bldg., and has also been known as the Kelly bldg., now housing in the north section, McCook Abstract. In the 1889 Sanborn map, the county offices are noted to be in that building, while the City of McCook jail and some offices were housed in the west end of Mousel, Brooks, Schneider & Mustion Law offices.

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