This square, symmetrical two-story courthouse of rusticated ashlar limestone blocks replaced a wooden building. Instead of occupying a courthouse square, it faces a park-like public square in the Spanish tradition. The Second Empire building’s central three bays on three sides are recessed behind porches that extend between the building’s four tower-like corner pavilions capped with py ramidal roofs. Tall windows with segmental or round arches of dressed limestone are set in each of the facades, and a white-painted, bracketed cornice ties the pavilions together under the roofline. A central tower carries a tall, convex mansard roof on a square base. The courthouse was rehabilitated by Schmidt of San Angelo with funding from the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program. Sited in the square is Houston sculptor William M. McVey’s Texas Centennial monument (1939) to David Crockett, executed in Texas pink granite.