
The courthouse and principal county and city institutions are grouped where 6th Drive crosses Phelps Avenue. The wide, symmetrically composed courthouse is a modernist composition of horizontal layers. The first story of thin-coursed, dark red brick is slightly recessed from the second floor of buff brick, a dark shadow making the upper floor appear suspended. The long, continuous band of second-floor windows is framed with stone, and a portal of polished black marble frames the entrance.
To the north at 100 W. 6th Street is the residential-looking Police Department building, formerly the city hall, built in 1930 by the Butler Company in a regional Spanish style that makes it look somewhat old-fashioned.