
Among San Antonio–based Phelps’s dozen courthouse designs, three are similar: those for Mills and Uvalde counties and this one. The red brick building has three plain stories above a raised basement, with only a string-course at the second floor and a cornice. In contrast, the projecting south and north porticos each have a ground floor with a three-arched loggia supporting an open gallery of monumental Ionic columns, three at each corner and two in between, linked by a balustrade, and a low-raked pediment. The Brown County Courthouse is the simplest among Phelps’s similar designs.