Editing Gainesville, Texas (section)

===Courthouse===
[[File:Gainesville June 2017 09 (Cooke County Courthouse).jpg|thumb|[[Cooke County Courthouse]]]]

Gainesville is home to a [[courthouse]] with an [[octagon]]al [[rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]] topped by stained glass, erected in 1910. "The 1912 [[Cooke County Courthouse]] was designed by the Dallas firm of [[Lang & Witchell]]. The courthouse was designed in the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux Arts]] style with some [[Prairie Style]] features and influences from famed Chicago architect [[Louis Sullivan]]. The courthouse in the center of Gainesville features black and white marbled interiors and a tall central atrium capped by a stained glass skylight under the tower." The courthouse is undergoing a major renovation project, resulting in the move of many county offices to surrounding buildings.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Historic Courthouses in Texas
  | publisher = [[Texas Historical Commission]]
  | url = http://www.thc.state.tx.us/courthouses/chlistpages/cooke.html
  | access-date = 2007-07-23 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070612132614/http://www.thc.state.tx.us/courthouses/chlistpages/cooke.html |archive-date = 2007-06-12}}
</ref>
[[File:Confederate monument detail Cooke County Courthouse Gainesville Wiki (1 of 1) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Detail of Confederate monument]]
In 1911 a monolith topped with a statue of a Confederate soldier was placed on the lawn outside the courthouse. The inscription of the plaque beside it reads "“no nation rose so white and fair none fell so pure of crime” referring to the [[Lost Cause of the Confederacy|Southern cause]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=Steve |title=Gainesville’s dark past still stirring passions |url=https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2012/10/15/gainesvilles-dark-past-still-stirring-passions/9853690007/ |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=Austin American-Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2020, in the wake of the [[Murder of George Floyd|killing of George Floyd]] and the [[Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials|removal of Confederate statues]] elsewhere, County Commissioners voted to retain the courthouse's Confederate monument.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Simone |title=Gainesville's County Commissioners Vote to Keep Courthouse Confederate Monument |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/gainesville-county-commissioners-vote-to-keep-courthouse-confederate-monument-11936116 |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=Dallas Observer |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Simone |title=A Gainesville Confederate Statue is Gone. Activists Say There's More Work to Be Done. |url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/a-gainesville-confederate-statue-is-gone-activists-say-theres-more-work-to-be-done-12035619 |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=Dallas Observer |language=en}}</ref>