This week’s article for Tidbits is again taken from the Mattie Dellinger collection.

The first brick building in Center was the County Clerk’s building on the courthouse yard. The building was built to house the county records until the 1885 courthouse was built. The building was used for a number of other things after the other buildings on the courthouse yard were completed.

At one time during World War I, the Red Cross set up head quarters in the building and the women met and made bandages to send to the European War Zone.

Mrs. G.A. King rented the building during the 1920s and operated her hat shop. Later the building served as the town’s women restroom building. During the administration of County Judge Dudley in 1937, the old original county clerks’ building was remodeled and a second story was added. Between 2006-2007, the building was unoccupied and kept locked.

The building was later leased to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas sometimes before 2010 and is now know as the Reba James Memorial Building.

Note: The museum is still in need of a volunteer for Fridays. It is only 3 hours a week. If you would like to volunteer but can’t do every week, we could use a substitute volunteer.  This may be YOU!!

The exhibit “Art” is still open to view. Please come by!