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Construction. During those years, Dodson dedicated himself to building the institutions, the schools, churches, courthouses and jails that he believed were essential to creating a civilized society on the sparsely-populated plains of Texas. In 1888, when W. C. Dodson was awarded the contract to design the new Courthouse for Fannin County, he had already built nine courthouses. These early buildings were all designed in the Second Empire style with Italianate or Classical Revival influences. They were all stone or brick with stately central bell towers. They were of different sizes, with differing combinations of mansard and gable roofs, and varying in architectural detail which made each of them distinctive. He designed courthouses for McLennan County in 1876, for Houston County in 1883, and for Kaufman County in 1884, all buildings that were later demolished to make way for larger, more modern buildings.
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