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Brewster County Courthouse

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1887, Tom Lovell. 201 W. Ave. E

This two-story Italianate-influenced brick courthouse, painted bright red, rests on a base of rusticated local limestone. It has tall paired round-arched windows, a corbeled belt course, a white-painted metal entablature, and a white-painted metal mansard roof. Inside, the courthouse has the typical cross-axial plan, with courtrooms on the second floor.

On the northwest corner of the courthouse square at W. Sul Ross Avenue is a two-story brick jail, also dating to 1887 and, because of its similarities to the courthouse, presumably by Lovell as well. It has round-arched windows in white-painted brick, a corbeled belt course, and a crenellated parapet.

Behind the courthouse square at 201 W. Sul Ross is the Gothic Revival First Christian Church (1906), a picturesque church built of randomly shaped, sized, and colored stone.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Brewster County Appraisal District (U.S. Post Office)
Holland Hotel
First Baptist Church of Alpine
Nolte-Rooney House
Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Brewster County Courthouse", [Alpine, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FV6.

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, 438-438.

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