Walter Chamberlin of Birmingham, Alabama, designed over two dozen courthouses in several southern states, including two in Texas, this one and one in Deaf Smith County (PH19). Chamberlin’s version of classicism is idiosyncratic. The raised basement is composed of local, tan-colored, rock-faced limestone, and the upper two floors are red pressed brick from Coffeeville, Kansas (taking advantage of the new rail line), with tan rock-faced limestone quoins, sills, and lintels. A delicate cornice is topped by a parapet of tan brick with a red brick coping. North and south porticos of four vaguely Tuscan columns support a tall entablature. The courthouse is crowned with a white-painted tower with an octagonal first stage and a smaller octagonal cupola with clocks and a polygonal dome. Unlike many courthouses with cross-axial plans and entrances, the San Saba Courthouse has east and west entrances to the ground floor and north and south raised entrances to the main second floor.