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Okeechobee County Courthouse 
Okeechobee County Courthouse, 2006General information Architectural style Southern Colonial Revival, Mediterranean Revival Town or city 304 NW 2nd St., Okeechobee, Florida Country United States Coordinates 27°14′41″N 80°49′56″W / 27.2447927°N 80.832276°W Construction started 1925 Completed 1926, accepted and opened 1927 Cost $200,000 Design and construction Client Okeechobee County Architect George Gaynor Hyde Engineer Builder: Rogers and Duncanson 
Okeechobee County Courthouse, 2010
Okeechobee County Courthouse, 2010, after completion of renovationsThe Okeechobee County Courthouse, built in 1926, is an historic courthouse building located at 304 Northwest 2nd Street in Okeechobee, Florida. It was designed by architect George Gaynor Hyde of Miami in what has been variously called the Southern Colonial Revival or Mediterranean Revival style of architecture. Due to the collapse of the Florida Land Boom during its construction, its central dome was never built. After the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, its hallways were used as a temporary morgue. What was planned and built as an open breezeway in the middle of the first floor was later enclosed, but the winding stairways to the second floor courtroom still remain.[1][2][3]
In 1989, the Okeechobee County Courthouse was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.[4]
References
- ^ Florida's Historic Courthouses
- ^ History of Okeechobee
- ^ Tommy Markham's Pictorial History of Okeechobee County, page 7A
- ^ A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, 1989, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, p. 131, ISBN 0-8130-0941-3
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