Established in the 1887 and opened in January 1889 as the House of Correction and Reformatory, a division of the Texas penal system. In 1913 a law that was passed renamed the facility to the State Juvenile Training School. The 1913 Juvenile Act stated that White boys at Gatesville would be separated from boys of other races. In 1913 the school opened the "Negroes' Institute," facilities for Black boys. In 1919 the newly-established State Board of Control began managing the state school. Clarkson was hired to design three dorms.  The Hill op unit has been converted into an adult male prison facility.  In a letter to a client dated Nov. 11, 1922, my grandfather states that he designed "three buildings at the State Juvenile Training School in Gatesville".  He also lists "State Juvenile Training School  Box 1 Job 223".  These buildings became the seed of an ever expanding detention system that now has added huge amounts of money to the economy of Gatesville and covers quite a few acres. Satellite imagery from Google shows a very large area occupied with more modern facilities.  However, near the center, somewhat like one might imaging the hub of a wheel, appear to be the three flat roof original 1917 buildings my grandfather designed, still in use today, repurposed to use appropriately almost 100 years after being designed and built, instead of being torn down and replaced with a more modern style construction.  It appears that these buildings will be in use for many years to come.

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