1926, David S. Castle Co. 200 W. Walker St.
One of Abilene-based architect Castle’s more robust classical designs, the four-story courthouse is faced with cream-colored terra-cotta simulating stone. Rising from a smooth ground-floor podium, a monumental order of ten engaged Corinthian columns extends two stories to a tall entablature, above which is a full attic floor. Projecting end bays frame the central recessed colonnades on the long north and south facades. On the southeast corner of the square are the remnants of the entrance to the 1883 courthouse by James Edward Flanders that was located on this corner of the square, rather than in the center.