Old Orange County Courthouse, 211 W Santa Santa Ana History Form

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[Music] Orange County's first courthouse was built around the turn of the century to house all the county government offices as well as the courts dedicated in 1901 it's not a very old building as historic buildings go change has come rapidly in Orange County destroying many early structures in the process the courthouse stands as both a solid visible symbol of the past as a functioning government building for Orange County's future in the mid 1980s it was the subject of a four million dollar renovation to restore its original appearance the most importantly to shore up its structure so it could withstand an earthquake of sizeable magnitude here we see the courthouse before renovation and after this is the story of how the original courthouse came into existence and of its renovation until 1889 Orange County was a part of Los Angeles County after much agitation the people living in the southern part of LA County broke away to form a separate County at the time the area was largely agri