Structure Type: built works - public buildings - courthouses
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1872-1873, demolished 1886
2 stories
Following the first courthouse's destruction in the Lone Pine Earthquake of 03/26/1872, E. Chaquette completed this two-story, wood-frame county building in 1873. It cost about $15,900.
Demolished; a fire in Independence, CA, on 06/30/1886 destroyed the courthouse and 37 other buildings. Two women managed to save the county's precious records and its interior furniture.
PCAD id: 17656