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Childress County Courthouse

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1939, Townes and Funk. 100 Ave. East NW

Although largely devoid of surface ornament, the stepped massing of the limestone-clad courthouse by Amarillo architect W. C. Townes is more strongly articulated than many of those built in the late 1930s. A pair of three-story wings advance in front of the rear four-story block (with the jail on the top floor), forming a deep loggia. Three fluted gray columns, without capitals, support a tall entablature, adorned only with a frieze of embossed, quatrefoil flower-like shapes. Windows are vertically stacked and recessed from the wall plane, creating shallow pilasters of the walls.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Michie Building
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Childress County Courthouse", [Childress, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH2.

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, 363-363.

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