# Douglas County Courthouse (1889)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/douglas-county-courthouse-1889/

- Kind: Other historic buildings
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3728, -104.8606 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

The second courthouse, of rhyolite with a central tower, built in 1889; it held the county offices, the district court and the jail. It was set on fire in 1978 and lost; the Clerk and Recorder is still on the site (county map, S-0123).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-122; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

## Nearby

- [Castle Rock Grange No. 62](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock-grange-no-62/): 0.0 mi north
- [First National Bank and Masonic Building](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/first-national-bank-and-masonic-building/): 0.1 mi southeast
- [Goldenrod Grange No. 192](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/goldenrod-grange-no-192/): 0.1 mi southeast
- [Keystone Hotel](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/keystone-hotel/): 0.1 mi northeast
- [St. Francis of Assisi Church (1888)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-francis-of-assisi-church-1888/): 0.1 mi southwest
- [Castle Rock Creamery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/castle-rock-creamery/): 0.1 mi northwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.