
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.