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I am going to stick my neck out say I am 99.9% sure that is the courthouse, which was completed at the end of 1878.  The sheriff's office was at the rear of the first floor and he shared his office with the Kansas Thirteenth Judicial District court clerk.   

J. W. Burchfield's store was called the Temple of Justice and burned in 1899.   I thought it was a hardware but those stores probably carried farm equipment in those days.

Are you aware of any Howard County sheriff's records?

Waldo E. Gray

On the home page is an 1879 photograph of a Howard, Kansas business street.



I am guessing the photo is of Wabash Street with the camera facing in a northwesterly direction from Randolph Street.  I am futher guessing that the large building at the end of the street is the first courthouse.

Can anyone provide their thoughts or confirm?


Waldo E. Gray

I would like to add that Waldo Gray's barbershop was in the basement underneath the post office when it was torn town.  For a number of years from around 1947 or so he and his father, Asmar (Slim) Gray, barbered in that basement shop.  Waldo moved his shop next to where Jean Gray is now.

Waldo Gray (nephew)
Centennial, CO