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Carson County Courthouse

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1950, J. C. Berry. 501 Main St.

The courthouse, which replaced a 1909 building by Leslie L. Thurmon, is on the edge of downtown, next to a residential area. The building has a raised basement of red granite supporting two stories of buff brick. A third story (the former jail) is set back from the main block of the building. The building’s stepped massing and Moderne design follow the mode of the late 1930s when construction began, but it halted during World War II. A shallow relief frieze of Grecian triglyphs and roundels bands the otherwise ornament-free courthouse.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Carson County Square House Museum

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Carson County Courthouse", [Panhandle, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-TP26.

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, 361-361.

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