Jack Brooks Federal Building


U.S. Post Office and Federal Building
U.S. Historic district Contributing property

File:Fedbuildingcrop.JPG Jack Brooks Federal Building in 2010
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Location	300 Willow St., Beaumont, Texas
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Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1933 (1933)
Architect	Fred Stone; F.W. & Douglas E. Steinman
Architectural style	Art Deco, Classical Revival
Part of	Beaumont Commercial District (ID78002959^[1])
Designated CP	April 14, 1978

The Jack Brooks Federal Building is a federal office building in Beaumont, Texas. It was the United States Post Office and Federal Building Completed during the Great Depression in 1933. The building houses courtrooms and chambers of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and an office of the United States Postal Service. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter came to Beaumont to officiate over the renaming of the building for Congressman Jack Brooks, who lived in and represented the area for many years.

The building features many Corinthian columns and has many detailed features. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the Beaumont Commercial District.

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Federal Judicial Center Historic Federal Courthouses page on the Jack Brooks Federal Building
Eastern District of Texas page on the Beaumont Division, served by the Jack Brooks Federal Building

v t e Beaumont Commercial District
Historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in Beaumont, Texas
Individually listed on the NRHP	Jefferson Theatre (RTHL)
Contributing properties	Crockett Street Edson Hotel First City Building First National Bank Building (RTHL) Gilbert Building Goodhue Building Hotel Beaumont Jack Brooks Federal Building Julie Rogers Theater Kyle Building Orleans Building San Jacinto Building Tyrrell Historical Library (RTHL)
Major non-contributing properties	Art Museum of Southeast Texas
National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Jefferson County

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Texas
Lists by county	Anderson Andrews Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bee Bell Bexar Blanco Borden Bosque Bowie Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Caldwell Calhoun Callahan Cameron Camp Carson Cass Castro Chambers Cherokee Childress Clay Cochran Coke Coleman Collin Collingsworth Colorado Comal Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crockett Crosby Culberson Dallam Dallas Dawson Deaf Smith Delta Denton DeWitt Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland Ector Edwards El Paso Ellis Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Foard Fort Bend Franklin Freestone Frio Gaines Galveston Garza Gillespie Glasscock Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Hardeman Hardin Harris Harrison Hartley Haskell Hays Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo Hill Hockley Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hudspeth Hunt Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jim Hogg Jim Wells Johnson Jones Karnes Kaufman Kendall Kenedy Kent Kerr Kimble King Kinney Kleberg Knox La Salle Lamar Lamb Lampasas Lavaca Lee Leon Liberty Limestone Lipscomb Live Oak Llano Loving Lubbock Lynn Madison Marion Martin Mason Matagorda Maverick McCulloch McLennan McMullen Medina Menard Midland Milam Mills Mitchell Montague Montgomery Moore Morris Motley Nacogdoches Navarro Newton Nolan Nueces Ochiltree Oldham Orange Palo Pinto Panola Parker Parmer Pecos Polk Potter Presidio Rains Randall Reagan Real Red River Reeves Refugio Roberts Robertson Rockwall Runnels Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto San Patricio San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shackelford Shelby Sherman Smith Somervell Starr Stephens Sterling Stonewall Sutton Swisher Tarrant Taylor Terrell Terry Throckmorton Titus Tom Green Travis Trinity Tyler Upshur Upton Uvalde Val Verde Van Zandt Victoria Walker Waller Ward Washington Webb Wharton Wheeler Wichita Wilbarger Willacy Williamson Wilson Winkler Wise Wood Yoakum Young Zapata Zavala	File:Logo of the United States National Park Service.svg map
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