Old McHenry County Courthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Old McHenry County Courthouse in Woodstock, Illinois.
Location:	Woodstock, IL, McHenry County, Illinois, USA
Coordinates:	42°18′53.57″N 88°26′53.61″W / 42.3148806°N 88.448225°W / 42.3148806; -88.448225
Built/Founded:	1857
Architect:	J.M. Van Osdel
Architectural style(s):	Italianate
Governing body:	Private
Added to NRHP:	November 01, 1974
NRHP Reference#:	74002183 [1]

The Old McHenry County Courthouse, in McHenry County, Illinois, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1974. Once the courthouse in the county seat of McHenry County, Woodstock, today the courthouse is occupied by various private tenants including a restaurant and an art gallery. It is one of the key structures in the Woodstock Square Historic District.

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The 1857 Italianate Old Courthouse was constructed to closely resemble the 1853 Cook County Courthouse (which was eventually destroyed during the Great Chicago Fire). The adjoining structure, the Sheriff's House and Jail was built in 1887. It was there, in the Sheriff's House and Jail that Eugene Debs was held for his refusal to comply with an injunction during the Pullman Strike. Until the early 1970s McHenry County government office were located in the Old Courthouse. Today the two buildings house two restaurants, one in each building, and art gallery (in the courthouse), a pottery shop (in the jail building) and the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum. Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy comic strips, was a 50-year Woodstock resident.^[2]

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[edit] External links

• USGS GNIS: Old McHenry County Courthouse. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.

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