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Brown County Courthouse

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1917, Henry T. Phelps. 200 S. Broadway St.

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.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Brown County Museum of History (Brown County Jail)
Town Houses (Brownwood National Bank)
Brownwood Manor (Citizens National Bank)
U.S. Post Office
J. A. Walker House

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Brown County Courthouse", [Brownwood, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FC23.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 293-293.

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