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[Freestone County Courthouse in Fairfield, TX]
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Photograph of Freestone County Courthouse in Fairfield, TX. A multi-lane road occupies the photo's foreground and is divided from a parking lot by a concrete median. The lot is empty and fills the space between the road and the courthouse. Near the curb dividing the parking lot from the courthouse's lawn is a telephone pole and two small payphones, all sitting in the left half of the image. On the opposite side of the lawn is a white pole and a small cannon. Trees with and without leaves, as well as small bushes, occupy various spots across the lawn. A walkway divides the lawn into halves leading from the parking lot to the front doors of the courthouse. The building is made of orange bricks with white stone accents in small amounts. The entrance includes a short set of stairs leading from the walkway to the red front doors of the building, which are shaded by an overhead projecting section of the courthouse that sits on four tall white columns. The entire entrance portion of the building projects outward from a wider section of the courthouse, which itself has a wider section behind it, creating a three-tiered appearance. Across all of the courthouse's walls are four rows of windows, with the topmost row running above the height of the entrance's columns while the bottommost row contains smaller windows just above the ground. At the top of the entrance section of the building, near the edge of the flat roof, is a circular motif carved from white stone. A metal pole and a tall, thin metal structure sit on top of the roof, with the latter object connecting to various wires that lead off the side of the courthouse roof.