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Historic Courthouses in Texas - 2
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LIST OF COUNTIES IN TEXAS

DALLAS COUNTY


  County Seat: Dallas
  Built:  1890
  Style:  Romanesque
  Status: Old Red Museum
  View:   Enlarge view
  Note:   The early courthouse building on the left is known
          as "Old Red," and has been renovated into a museum
          of Dallas history. Curious figures called wyverns 
          (not gargoyles) peer down from the roof. The picture
          on the right is the first Dallas court  house. 


DAWSON COUNTY

  County Seat: Lamesa
  Built:  1916
  Style:  Texas Renaissance
  Status: active courthouse 


DELTA COUNTY

  County Seat: Cooper
  Built:  1940
  Style:  Moderne
  Status: active courthouse 
  Note:   Located a block from the downtown square. The
          1900 courthouse was in the center of the square.


DENTON COUNTY

  County Seat: Denton
  Built:  1896
  Style:  Romanesque Revival
  Status: museum
  View:   Enlarge
  Note:   The 5th courthouse built for $179K. Renovated in
          1987 & 2004. It has 82 granite columns.  A new 
          courthouse was built and this one is now the 
          Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum.


DONLEY COUNTY

  County Seat: Clarendon
  Built:  1890
  Style:  Romanesque vival
  Status: active courthouse
  View:   Enlarge
  Note:   Restored in 2003, oldest functioning courthouse
          in the Panhandle


DUVAL COUNTY

  County Seat: San Diego
  Built:  1916
  Style:  Classical revival
  Status: active courthouse
  View:   Enlarge
  Note:   No town square.


EASTLAND COUNTY
  
  County Seat: Eastland 
  Built:  1928  
  Style:  Art Deco  
  Status: active courthouse
  View:   Enlarge
  Note:   First county seat was in Merriman (1873).
  Jail:   Old County Jail built in 1897 and is now
          a museum.  The jail once housed one of
          the Santa Clause Bank Robbers in 1927 
          from a bloody bank heist. The prisoner
          killed a well-liked jailer, which enraged
          the towns-folks to take matters into their
          own hands, lynching the prisoner.

  This is the third courthouse for Eastland.  In 1897, when construction was started on
  the second courthouse, a horned toad was placed in a cornerstone time capsule as a 
  joke.  After thirty-one years, the courthouse was torn down to make room for the 
  present one and the horned toad was found alive. The toad died a year later and 
  was given the name of "Old Rip".   It is kept in a locked display case in the 
  courthouse.

  The 1897 Eastland County Courthouse where Ol' Rip's 
  residence for 31 yrs. 

  This building was the first courthouse in Eastland 
  around 1876. It became a drug store later and is 
  now being restored to be a court museum.  The 1883
  courthouse was destroyed by a fire in 1896. 


ELLIS COUNTY

  County Seat: Waxahachie   
  Built:  1896
  Style:  Richardsonian-Romanesque  
  Status: active courthouse
  Note:   National Register of Historic Places

  The county's fourth courthouse is nine stories
  high and features some of the finest stonework
  of granite & red sandstone in the state. The style
  is similar to the Old Red Courthouse in downtown
  Dallas.  A three-year restoration project was just
  completed in 2002.  One of the most photographed buildings in Texas.


ERATH COUNTY

  County Seat: Stephenville
  Built:  1892
  Style:  Romanesque Revival
  Status: active courthouse
  Note:   Third courthouse and built for $75K


FALL COUNTY

  County Seat: Marlin
  Built:  1939
  Style:  Contemporary
  Status: active courthouse 


FANNIN COUNTY - present courthouse was built in 1965 at the 
  county seat of Bonham.

FAYETTE COUNTY

  County Seat: LaGrange
  Built:  1891
  Style:  Romanesque Revival
  Status: active courthouse 


FRANKLIN COUNTY

  County Seat: Mount Vernon
  Built:  1912
  Style:  Classical Revival
  Status: active courthouse 
  Note:   Located on the square but not 
          center, being renovated in 2011.


FREESTONE COUNTY

  County Seat: Fairfield
  Built:  1919
  Style:  Classical Revival
  Status: active courthouse 

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