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Old Red Courthouse
100 South Houston Street Dallas, TX 75202 Phone: 214-745-1100About
Tucked inside the 1892 Richardsonian Romanesque courthouse building, just a block from The Sixth Floor Museum, this venue is a treasure-trove of things you never knew about Dallas. For example, these things were invented here: the integrated circuit, Liquid Paper, the Slurpee, the Fletcher's corny dog and the Hams (our first pro baseball team, in 1888). Exhibits take visitors from prehistory to the present. There's a small section devoted to the Kennedy assassination, including Jack Ruby's prison doodle from 1965, showing an Escheresque fascination with line and perspective.
