Old World Masterpiece - Douglas County Kansas Courthouse 

For such a small population those steps are well traveled.

it's the arches that really get me... if any of the stones are off by even a tiny bit, the whole thing is ruined. True for any of the stones.

great journalism.

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful beautiful Building breathtaking

I've never seen marble stairs worn out that only one other time have I seen Stone stairs that were so worn out and that was in the Middle East around Jerusalem underground. Absolutely amazing! That building's probably over 3- 400 years old. No wonder the Freemasons like.

My mother used to work in that court house. I used to think that those decorations were poured into a mold like plaster of Paris. The Masonic building isn't too far from the court house. The court house stand a little off from the down town area, where the old Masonic lodge is. I believe that the Masons have been trying to sell the building for 20 years. It might have sold to an investor, but I think it's still vacant. I'm not sure. I don't live in the area anymore, but my family still does.

Beautiful and thank you for sharing. This is unlike many counties that when something gets to be 55, 60 years old, they either abandon it or tear it down and build a new modern one. (SNCO). Thank you again, this was a great tutorial.

Yeah, the horse and buggy people had mad fabrication skills

Gorgeous Tartarian Building

I heard you mention they are going to dig and put a liner around the building. I have a friend here in St Louis that does excavating and his company had to waterproof an old city school. They had to dig an additional 16 to 20 feet blow the basement to reach the footing.

The steps remind me of the steps in the Tower of Pisa. They are deeply worn, but it was completed in 1372! Not to totally change topics, but it took 199 years to complete the Tower of Pisa, which is not near the size of the structures you look at here. It takes a very long time for steps to be worn that much!

According to tptb at wiki, the population of Douglas County in the 1900 Census was about 25000. It's interesting that they spent the equivalent of a billion dollars on this building back then.

Somethings just don't add up and in past few short years I'm finding out Kansas has some very strange history and right how much time and traffic would it take to Wear down those marble steps??? lol just a crazy thought was there that many people going to court!!!!!!! Lol in a population of around 12000 up to nowadays no something else is going on with our history

Not even in The Swedish royal castles FOUNDed in 1600 have such worn out marble stairs.

Miami, Ok. (just across the state line) has a nice old Courthouse like this one. We seem to have many old ones in the midwest.

Recently visited the Santa Barbara courthouse, wow did they go over the top building it.

Stockton, Ks has a beautiful limestone courthouse with marble inside built in 1923 I believe.

John G. Haskell was the architect of Douglas County Courthouse, wings of Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka, and a number of other county and state landmarks, including (I think) Hiawatha Hall on the campus of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence. Hiawatha is a National Historic Landmark on the campus named for John G.’s brother, U.S. Senator Dudley C. Haskell.

I checked out Lawrence Kansas on web back in 1900 to 1912 the population was only like 10,000 to 12,000 my question is why a need for such an elaborate huge castle type building back then !!! ? Makes you wonder what was up with Kansas!!!.. I lived in Kansas in a town called Arkansas city a short period I can remember a lot of the brick streets but wasn't actually there long enough to remember much else

Excellent video. Really like your channel. Thank you

wow that stain glass!. Those worn stairs just scream age, I would guess at least 300 years of ware. a lot of feet in a court house, there is that to bear in mind, so more ware than usual what an amazing grand style building and so so structurally sound

Remarkable

Towers upon towers! Magnificent

How could someone build a perfect circle in the ceiling like that with railings perfectly circled???🤔

Beautiful!

Built in a time with no electricity either lol ya ok

The court room reminds me of paintings of our founding fathers which was about 1776.

Amen brother! Praise Yahusha in his mighty Name!!!

The stone work reminds me of the public library in midland ontario 🇨🇦

I just started getting couple pieces of Vaseline glass which glows in 365nm UV light, supposedly made in 1850. I wonder if any of those stained glass Windows glow with UV light. Would be cool to test.

Great video brother

if your ever in houston tx check out the houston waterworks, its not been on anyones radar, lots of old colums underground interesting..

It took a long long long long time to ware down the steps ///////////////// They very very old //////////////////

Marble is a very soft stone

Do you think it’s a possibility that those large stones in the courthouse are just a façade? The whole place might be basically made of red brick. Lake in your other video where the stones are falling off and you see the red brick inside.

I wonder if counties were decided by where these huge buildings were located

I find it curious that these worn down marble staircases that I'm seeing, are always worn away at the right side of the staircase, if you're going up.

I think that the floor is granite not marble, good video, amazing place

So much free masonry in this country.

Has to be 500yrs + old for Granite/marble flooring to be That worn in that way! ...Must be Granite to have that crack that you found in one. Not that I'm an expert just going on observations so far ;-)

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Same stairs in El Dorado ks butler county court house

They just took down the exterior construction fencing.

Greetings sir

built in just two years.... I have my doubts.

Ah, yes. The freemasonic Anno Lucis (Lucifer) 5903. Explains a lot about my hometown. Glad I escaped and got saved from damnation by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Not steel it is iron //////////

More are now demanding real explanations instead of what we are given.

1901 the stones were probably carted in by horse and wagon from a local quarry. The closest limestone quarries that were most likely available were in Kansas City. Lots of towns and rail were already established before 1901. You're confusing the old West that lasted between 1865 to about 1885. Lawrence would have more historical buildings but a lot of them were burnt down. Lawrence has been burnt to the ground at least twice I think. Some places have been burnt down at least 3 times. From 1854 to the start of the civil war in 1861 Lawrence was a center for Jawhawks. (Not the sports team), but partisan rangers (Guerilla warfare) who committed extreme acts of violence in raids on other towns on the border towns in Missouri. It's technically where the U.S. civil war started. There are only 200 or more known deaths related to the Bleeding Kansas/border wars phase because not everyone who came to Kansas in the 1850s can be accounted for.

sorry but a dip in marble from stepping on stairs doesnt happen over 123 years lmfao😂👍