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Ward County Courthouse

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1940, Townes and Funk; 1974 addition, Riherd and Huckabee; 1990s additions. 300 E 4th St.

The courthouse by Amarillo-based Townes and Funk is a stripped classical composition in smooth cream limestone with vertically stacked windows and aluminum spandrel panels. Projecting three-story wings flank a central four-story block, with a three-story recessed entrance portico. The scheme forms a final reduction of the stepped courthouse model of the 1930s. Chamfered reveals around the windows give a feeling of depth and mass.

Windowless one-story wings by Riherd and Huckabee of Andrews are compatible with the original, but a 1990s stucco-clad elevator-tower and office addition at the rear of the building are unsympathetic.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Security Bank (First National Bank)
Million Barrel Storage Site
Monahans Sandhill State Park

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Ward County Courthouse", [Monahans, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT38.

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, 468-468.

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