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Parker County District Clerk (U.S. Post Office)

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1914, James A. Wetmore, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury. 117 Fort Worth Hwy.

In marked contrast to the late-nineteenth-century Italianate buildings on the square, the red brick and limestone post office one block to the east is in a richly detailed Georgian Revival mode, an East Coast assertion of sophistication inserted into a western town. A portico with four monumental Tuscan columns supports a shallow pediment, and the cornice around the entire building projects strongly. Tall, round-arched, first-floor windows are surmounted by stone keystones. The post office closed in 1996 and was purchased by the city for courtrooms and offices.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers and Public Works Administration (PWA) funds built the Public Market (1932) and the Farmers Market (1932), at 213 and 217 Fort Worth Highway, respectively. Essentially, they are long open sheds with California Mission–styled facades in white stucco with curved copings in red brick.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Parker County District Clerk (U.S. Post Office)", [Weatherford, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-WC4.

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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, 245-245.

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