McKean
County Courthouse - 1881
photo credit: McKean County Historical
Society
1881: Third Courthouse
for McKean County. It was completed in 1881 at a cost of $80,000. Buffalo
architect Milton Earl Beebe was hired to design the project. Beebe had considerable
experience and fame, and the retaining of such a noted architect indicated
the new found imortance and wealth of the county. It was destroyed by fire
February 1940.
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here to see 1909: Sanborn-Perris
Map of Smethport 500 Block
Phases of the McKean County Courthouse