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Hockley County Courthouse

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1928, Butler Company. 802 Houston St.

This Beaux-Arts classical courthouse was designed by Preston Lee Walker, architect for the Butler Company of Oklahoma City and Lubbock. The cream limestone three-story building, which commands the center of the landscaped square, is elaborated with a row of Ionic columns across the center of its upper two stories. In 1938 the Butler-Brasher Company designed the subtly streamlined Hockley County Jail on the southeast corner of the site, constructed with Public Works Administration (PWA) funding. Finally in 1948, the same firm added the Moderne Courthouse Annex on the southwest corner. It is now the Hockley County Library.

The former Levelland State Bank (1952, Christenson and Christenson) at 822–824 Austin Street exhibits a Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired horizontal layering of wall and roof planes.

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Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Hockley County Courthouse", [Levelland, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PP13.

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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, 374-374.

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