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[Anderson County Courthouse in Palestine, TX]
Photograph of Anderson County Courthouse in Palestine, TX. A paved road divided by a white line runs across the bottom of the photo and is separated from the courthouse's lawn by a sidewalk. A white car is parked in front of the sidewalk, towards the center of the photo. To the left of the car, in the courthouse's lawn, grows a leafless tree. The courthouse itself is made of red bricks and white stone, constructed in a rectangular shape with a flat roof lined with railing and a shiny, gold dome in the roof's center. The courthouse faces the right side of the photo and has an entrance shadowed by a rectangular overhang supported by brick columns. A short set of stairs leads up to the building's doors from the lawn. A row of windows runs along each side of the building's first floor. On top of the overhang sit many white columns that extend from the bottom of the second floor to the top of the third floor to hold up a large white triangular pediment. Two rows of windows, one each for the second and third floors, span the width of each of the courthouse's sides, all spaced apart by more white columns which support white rectangular pediments. A second triangular pediment is visible in the center of the left side of the courthouse, which faces the left edge of the photo. The gold dome on the roof of the building has tall windows across its base and the sculpture of a human figure at the top of its dome.
[Archer County Courthouse]
Photograph of Archer County Courthouse and Jail, a historic courthouse building on Public Square and Sycamore and Pecan Streets in Archer City, Texas.
[Austin County Courthouse in Sealy, TX]
Photograph of Austin County Courthouse in Sealy, TX. Leading up to the courthouse is an intersection, with one road extending from the bottom edge of the photo to a stop sign positioned between two other signs saying "No left turn" and Holland". Below the signs, two white lines painted onto the road extend across it to denote a walkway. Next to this walkway, near the left edge of the photo, is a sign with an arrow saying to "Keep right" while a yellow tilted square dotted with red circles sits below it. Farther into the intersection, one car begins to enter the photo from the left side while another car exits towards the right side, passing a pedestrian standing near the curb. The curb borders farthest end of the intersection and separates the road from the grass surrounding the courthouse's entrance. A stop sign stands in the center of the grass in front of a brick planter containing shrubs. The courthouse building sits beyond the planter and consists of two sections: a black rectangular section that is wide and short, and a white section that is taller but less wide, resembling a cube in shape. The cubic section sits on top of the rectangular one and hangs off the front side on rectangular metal columns, providing shade for the doors into the courthouse. On the cubic section, near its top edge, are the words "Austin County Courthouse". The doors into the courthouse are made of glass and are surrounded by rectangular windows set into white frames.
[Bailey County Courthouse in Muleshoe, Texas]
Photograph of Bailey County Courthouse in Muleshoe, Texas. The courthouse is a wide building with two rows of windows spanning the width of the side facing the camera. Each row of windows begins and ends with a single pane window, with the top row having five double pane windows between them. The second row of windows has two double pane windows on either side of a set of double doors, totaling four windows for that row. The doors also have a small pediment supported by pilasters attached to the wall above them. The building's walls are made of red or orange bricks, with white strips at the top of the building near the roof's edge. A flat structure appears on the left side of the roof while a chimney rises from the roof's right side. A concrete walkway extends from the building's doors, at the end of which is a telephone pole on the left side and a pole flying the American flag on the right, each sitting in the corner of a yellow lawn. Trees growing at the left edge of the photo have no leaves while trees on the image's right edge gave yellow foliage. A curb in the center of the foreground runs across the photo's width and divides the concrete ground in front of the courthouse. In the background behind the building are residential houses and vehicles.
[Bastrop County Courthouse in Bastrop, TX]
Photograph of Bastrop County Courthouse in Bastrop, TX. The lawn of the courthouse fills the foreground of the photo, filled with trees growing from yellowing grass. Near the bottom left corner of the photo sits a small stone slab with a laurel wreath inscribed near its top along with "Major Joseph O. Sayers" written underneath. Farther into the photo, near the corner where the front and side of the courthouse meet, stands a white obelisk with a picture on each of its visible sides: a pair of crossed swords on the left side and two crossed flags on the right side. The courthouse itself is a white rectangular building lined with green bushes along its base, its entrance facing the left side of the photo while a clocktower sits in the center of its flat roof. The entrance to the building is shaded by a rectangular pediment supported by columns, above which sits railing. Foliage from a tree growing near the courthouse's entrance obscures the visual details of the second and third floors of the building's front. On the other side of the courthouse, the one that faces the right side of the photo, there is a row of windows set into arched frames along the first floor of the building while rows of rectangular windows span the second and third floors. The clocktower on top of the courthouse is made of a darker material than the rest of the building and has white numbers and hands on its dark clockfaces. A small dome with a sphere atop it occupies the top of the clocktower.
[Bell County Courthouse in Belton, TX]
Photograph of Bell County Courthouse in Belton, TX. A fire hydrant emerges from the bottom edge of the photo, sitting in front of a road that a white car drive onto from the left side of the photo, its image in the photo blurring as it moves. Across the road, a sidewalk sits between the pavement and the courthouse's lawn, turning into a corner near the right side of the photo as two sides of the courthouse meet near the center of the image. Positioned close to the corner of the sidewalk is a statue with "Peter Hansborough Bell" written on the base it stands on, its figure standing casually and looking to the left. Various signs stand it different places on the sidewalk including one standing in the left side of the photo that says "Mc Gregor 31" with and upwards arrow, "Moody 20" with an upwards arrow, and "Temple 8" with a right-pointing arrow. The courthouse building itself is made up by white blocks and stones constructed into a square structure with roofed towers at each corner and, in the center of each side, triangular pediments supported by circular columns, which each sit upon rectangular overhangs supported by brick columns. The brick columns all have archways built between them. On the side of the courthouse facing the right edge of the photo is a railed ramp that leads from the ground to an entrance shadowed by a brick overhang.
[Borden County Courthouse in Gail, TX]
Photograph of Borden County Courthouse in Gail, TX. The building is rectangular in shape with a flat roof and large width, constructed with yellow bricks except for pale grey rectangles above the windows and doors. These rectangles have decorative elements to them with downward arrow patterns in the ones above the windows, vertical lines in ones positioned on either side of the building's entrance, and a motif reminiscent of a shining sun in a wide rectangle above the doors leading into the courthouse. Above the doors and their decoration, the words "Borden County Courthouse" are attached to the wall. The doors themselves are made mostly of glass and have tall windowpanes set around them. The courthouse sits on a raised portion of ground with a green lawn, few short trees, two very tall and thin metal structures, and rock with plaques set into it. The side of the raised ground are contained with walls made of round stones, interrupted only by a short set of stairs in the right side of the photo leading from paved ground to the courthouse. The bottom third of the photo is of pavement.
[Bosque County Courthouse in Meridian, TX]
Photograph of Bosque County Courthouse in Meridian, TX. A parking lot full of vehicle of various shapes and colors sits in front of the courthouse, a building made of white stone three sections projecting out from the main part of the building. The central section has a large clockface at its top, along with 1886" carved below it, while the two other sections occupy the two visible corners of the building. Across the three sections and the thin walls between them are two rows of arched windows, one across the bottom half of the courthouse and across the top half. The top of the building appears to be flat as neither a structure upon the roof nor the roof's surface are visible in the photo.
[Bowie County Courthouse in Boston, TX]
Photograph of Bowie County Courthouse in Boston, TX. A paved road runs in front of the green lawn the courthouse sits on, faint yellow lines indicating parking spots in front of the road's curb. A sidewalk leads up to the entrance of the courthouse, which faces the left side of the photo. A short set of stairs lead up to the dark front door of the courthouse, which is a square building with off-white walls and a roof covered in dark shingles. Three rows of windows span the width of each side of the courthouse. The portions of the building containing the center two columns of windows on each of the building's sides project out from the rest of the structure a short distance, and are topped by A-frame roofs that similarly project outwards from the rest of the upward-sloping roof. Behind the right corner of the courthouse is a flat-topped tower made of off-white bricks. Next to the front right corner of the courthouse is a short, wide building with doors at its left end, wide windows across its walls, and a flat roof. Green bushes sit along the base of the building's walls.
[Brazos County Courthouse in Bryan, TX]
Photograph of Brazos County Courthouse in Bryan, TX. A building with a flat top and a silvery gray border hanging from the edges of its roof, supported at regular intervals by white rectangular columns, sits across the street from the camera. A line of black windows runs along the walls just under the roof's edge while green bushes line the base of the structure's walls. The side of the building facing the camera, its widest side, has a large window the same height as the wall positioned right before the left edge of the wall. On the side of the building facing the left edge of the photo is a gap in the building's wall, likely accommodating an entrance, with undistinguishable words on the walls next to the gap. Green trees rise behind the building while a silver, rectangular building towers over the previous structure, and has "Brazos County Courthouse" spelled out on the wall facing the camera in large metal letters. A tall, thin metal pole rises from the building's roof. Nearer to the camera, a streetlight appears in the photo's top left corner as power lines extend across the image's width towards its top edge. Concrete squares with spots of green growing between them extend away from the camera to a two-way, four lane road occupied by three blue cars with white roofs. A sign facing away from the camera sits on a patch of grass in front of the road, at the right edge of the image, with unreadable text on it.
[Burleson County Courthouse in Caldwell, TX]
Photograph of Burleson County Courthouse in Caldwell, TX. A wide paved road runs in front of the green lawn the courthouse sits on, with multiple cars parked next to each other along the edge of the grass. A short pink tree sits in the left half of the lawn while a taller green tree grows in the opposite side as a wide walkway leads from the road to a tall set of stairs pedestrians walks in front of, which in turn lead to the courthouse's entrance. The doors to the building are tall and dark brown, framed by pilasters and topped with a pediment. Narrow windows with decorative framing sit in pairs on either side of the doors. The row of windows extending to the left and right of those windows are taller and end in half-circle shapes rather than flat edges. Rectangular windows appear in a row below the aforementioned windows, closer to the ground. Above the doors are two rows of tall windows bordered by a thinner window on either side and covered by four tall columns that lead to a dark overhang that runs across the courthouse's width. Tall windows extend in rows on either side of the columns, with the last window of each end having a small balcony. The roof of the building is flat with thin wires and poles rising a short distance above the courthouse.
[Cameron County Courthouse in Brownsville, TX]
Photograph of Cameron County Courthouse in Brownsville, TX. Two cars are visible at either side of the photo, both parked in front of the sidewalk running alongside the courthouse's green lawn. Green trees grow throughout the lawn, their foliage partially obscuring the courthouse. The building is square in its general shape and is made of pale red bricks. A short set of stairs leads up to the front doors, which face towards the right side of the photo. Three rows of windows set into white frames span the width of all the building's sides. Four columns sitting atop the entryway to the courthouse rise up past two floors to support a rectangular pediment with the words "Cameron County Courthouse" written out on it. A similar structure is partially visible on the left side of the building, which face the left edge of the photo. Above the pediments and running along the roof's edge is a decorated wall, its bricks decorated with white stone. Multiple tall, thin metal structures of varying shapes sit on top of the courthouse's flat roof, one of which resembles an empty flagpole.
[Camp County Courthouse in Pittsburg, TX]
Photograph of Camp County Courthouse in Pittsburg, TX. A paved road sits front of the green lawn of the courthouse while a sidewalk runs parallel to the road, one section breaking off to lead up to the courthouse's entrance, which faces towards the right edge of the photo. The entrance of the building includes stairs leading from the ground to the front doors, which are shadowed by a brick overhang supported by two columns on either side of the stairs. The rest of the building is also made of bricks and is constructed in a rectangular shape with a flat roof. Four rows of windows set into white frames span the sides of the courthouse, with the bottommost row positioned just above the ground while the topmost row consists of smaller windows. At the center of the front wall of the building, near the roof's edge, is "Camp County Courthouse" written across stone blocks set amongst the wall's bricks. Tall green trees grow on either side of the courthouse.
[Cass County in Linden, TX]
Photograph of Cass County Courthouse in Linden, TX. A "Keep to right" sign sits near the left edge of the photo in the foreground, beyond which are four cars parked across the image's width in front of a sidewalk lined with parking meters. The sidewalk runs in front of the green lawn which surrounds the courthouse and contains short bushes as well as a grey obelisk set atop a tall sloping base. The courthouse building itself is white with red tile roofing and white window frames. The entrance is shaded a large pediment supported by four tall columns and topped by a triangular roof with a half-circle window. Two rows of windows span the width of each side of the building except the inverted corners of the structure, which each have a side with only one window. Above the level of the pediment over the courthouse's entrance is a third row of smaller windows, set towards the top of the wall under the roof's edge.
[Chambers County Courthouse in Anahuac, TX]
Photograph of Chambers County Courthouse in Anahuac, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the photo, parallel to the green lawn the courthouse sits on as it faces towards the right side of the image. A sidewalk sits parallel to the road at the lawn's edge, with a walkway breaking off to lead up to the front entrance of the courthouse. A person dressed in a bright, light orange dress walks along the path towards the stairs leading up to the courthouse's front doors. Foliage from an off-camera tree appears at the left edge of the photo in the foreground while another tree grows to the left of the courthouse's stairs. The courthouse building is rectangular in shape and is made of large white bricks, with the section the stairs connect to offset inwards compared to the rest of the building. The courthouse has three rows of tall windows set into white frames across its width. In the center offset section of the building, above the top row of windows, is "A.D. Chambers County 1936" carved into the stone bricks. A small rectangular building sits on top of the courthouse's flat roof, its own roof similarly flat, with multiple tall, thin metal structures rising behind it from the courthouse's roof.
[Cherokee County Courthouse in Rusk, TX]
Photograph of Cherokee County Courthouse in Rusk, TX. The courthouse has pale greying walls made up by many small off-white stones, interrupted at regular intervals by columns of two tall windows set into concrete. A short set of stairs lead up to the entrance of the building which has two doors bordered by tall windows on their sides and above them. The entrance slightly faces towards the left side of the photo. The entrance has a small roof that's a dark green or blue and slopes slightly up to a decorative raindrop-shaped object. A cylindrical lantern sits on a short pole on the right side of the doors, on top of a short cube, matching the building's material. Short green bushes line the base of the courthouse's walls while trees grow in front of its entrance and at its tight corner. The central portion of the courthouse rise higher than the sections on either side of it, behind which different sections of rectangular stone structures rise from the roof. A walkway leads away from the courthouse to a curb lined with parking meters, which borders a parking lot occupied by five cars of varying styles.
[Childress County Courthouse in Childress, TX]
Photograph of Childress County Courthouse in Childress, TX. The courthouse is made of a pale-yellow stone, darkening at the top of each section of the building. The entrance of the courthouse consists of the lowest rectangular section of the structure and four thick columns, supporting the top section of wall above the entrance. On this section "Childress County Courthouse 1881-1838" is written on the wall. On either side of this portion of the building are taller rectangular sections with two rows of tall narrow windows spanning them. Behind these sections and the first one is a fourth one, rising into the sky with two rows of windows. In front of the courthouse is a set of grey stairs and trees with brown foliage or none at all. A streetlight sits next to a walkway that runs along the edge of the courthouse's yellow lawn, next to which is a parking lot occupied by a truck and a car. The parking lot is made up by paved ground that gives way to red brick in the photo's foreground.
[Childress County Courthouse in Childress, TX, 2]
Photograph of Childress County Courthouse in Childress, TX. A large leafless tree sits near the center of the photo in the foreground, its branches stretching upwards and out to fill the top third of the image. The tree sits in an expanse of orange grass that leads up to the edge of the courthouse, it entrance facing the left side of the photo. The entrance to the building consists of a tall gray set of doors above which are the faded words "Chidlress county courthouse 1891-1969". Tall narrow windows span the sides of the building with two rows extending from either side of the building's entrance while another two rows sit above the height of the doors. The center of the courthouse's front side sits higher than the rest of the building by a few feet, while a larger rectangular section rises from behind the edge of the main building's flat roof edge.
[Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, TX]
Photograph of Collin County Courthouse in McKinney, TX. The courthouse is made of faded orange bricks and resembles a cube in its general shape, though multiple sections project outwards from the rest of the building. One side of the building with a simple entrance of stairs and one door faces the right side of the photo while a more intricate entrance consisting of double doors set into a projecting section of the building serve as the base for four tall columns, which hold up a portion of brick wall with a clockface in its center. A second clockface is visible at the top of the right-facing side of the courthouse, similarly set into a brick wall that runs along the edge of the building's flat roof. Three rows of windows span the width of the courthouse's sides, with a fourth row of smaller windows running along the base of the walls near the ground. Spanning from bottom of the left entrance's stairs to the bottom of the right entrance's stairs is a curving, gravel-filled portion of ground bordered by a curb. Parking meters spaced at regular intervals line along the curb and have two cars parked near them, one on each side of the photo. A third car almost entirely disappears off-camera as it drives off the right side of the image. Within the gravel area the parking meters occupy are two simple benches, each with a person holding a bicycle standing nearby. A leafless tree grows next to the bench on the right.
[Collingsworth County Courthouse in Wellington, TX]
Photograph of Collingsworth County Courthouse in Wellington, TX. The courthouse is made up by orange brick decorated with portions of white stone. One entrance of the building faces the right edge of the photo and is made up by a large rectangle of white stone with two archways cut into it and a small set of stairs leading up to them. Above the entrance, three rectangular sections of orange brick stick out from the building slightly, topped with white stone possessing the images of humanoid figures carved into them. A second entrance appears on the left side of the building and is obscured by a short tree with dark foliage from which a flagpole flying the American flag emerges. Each side of the courthouse has three rows of tall windows, some with air conditioning units attached to them, and is lined with bushes with little to no leaves on them. Each corner of the building is shorter than the rest of the courthouse, leaving the corner sections with only two rows of windows. In the gaps above these sections are singular windows on each wall with faces carved from white stone placed above them. A yellow lawn surrounds the courthouse, in which a streetlight appears centered in the image, and is bordered by a curb that separates the lawn from a red brick road painted with yellow parking lot lines. Appearing from the right edge of the photo is a white car parked parallel to the curb.
[Comanche County Courthouse in Comanche, TX]
Photograph of Comanche County Courthouse in Comanche, TX. The courthouse is made up of small pale stones and has one tall section in its center with sections of varying shorter heights on either side. The central part of the building has two rows of tall windows and a white set of double doors for an entrance. The doors face the camera and have a carved eagle placed above them and a short set of stairs leading away from them. A dark blue box with a red top sits in front of the stairs. The short sections on either side of the central portion of the building have one row of windows, a few with air conditioning units attached to them. Behind these are slightly taller sections with a row of windows in each. Behind each of these sections is one more rectangular portion of building rising slightly taller than the previous ones. In front of the courthouse are dark bushes, tall fuzzy trees, and a leafless tree, all sitting in a yellow lawn enclosed by a curb. A parking lot occupies the photo's foreground in front of the courthouse and has a curb running across the image's width, dividing the lot. On the left side of the photo behind the curb are three parked cars while one car sits at the right edge of the photo on the closer side of the curb, parallel parked alongside it.
[Cooke County Courthouse in Gainesville, TX]
Photograph of Cooke County Courthouse in Gainesville, TX. The courthouse is mostly rectangular in shape with a section of the building projecting outwards from the rest, on the side facing the camera. The building is made of white stone and pale orange bricks, with the bottom two floors built entirely from stone bricks while the upper two floors consist of bricks accented and decorated with stone. Each of the four floors of the courthouse have a row of windows across their widths. On the left side of the building, which faces the left edge of the photo, two white columns rise across the top two floors of the building to support a rectangular pediment that projects outwards slightly from the rest of the wall. The top of the courthouse is flat with a short brick wall lining the roof's edge, beyond which a clocktower sits, centered on the building's roof. The clocktower has white walls with shuttered windows, above which are the clockfaces of the tower, topped by a light blue dome. Outside of the courthouse building, near its left corner, are a tall stone slab with a motif on it, a street sign saying "Commerce St", a faded mailbox, and a white sign with "Cooke County United Fund" written on it. Multiple trees and bushes line the base of the courthouse's walls.
[Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, TX]
Photograph of Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, TX. The courthouse is made of white stone decorated with faded red accents and has windows with brown frames. One entrance to the building faces towards the right edge of the photo and had a short set of stairs that lead up to three white arches, their tops outlined in red. The arches stick out from the building, as does the pediment attached to the edge of the building's roof, supported by tall red columns and containing a red star motif inside its pediment. The columns' height spans two levels of the building. The expanse of wall behind and on either side of the columns and the arched entrance below them is juts out from the building, as does the side of the building facing the left edge of the photo. This creates the appearance of towers at each corner of the courthouse, each one topped with a red dome and a white carved shape. The bottom row of windows spanning the perimeter of the courthouse have curved tops with red curving lines above them, except for rectangular windows in-between the corner towers. The second row of windows are all rectangular with horizontal lines of red above them. The top and final row of windows mirrors the mix of curved and rectangular windows of the bottom row. On the roof of the courthouse is a circular clocktower with multiple clocks above red lattice windows divided by white columns. The clocktower has a dark brown dome atop it, with a smaller red dome on short white columns sitting on it. On the ground around the courthouse are tall leafless trees, short green bushes, and a yellow lawn.
[Dallam County Courthouse in Dalhart, TX]
Photograph of Dallam County Courthouse in Dalhart, TX. The courthouse is made of red bricks of varying colors and white stone that accents windows, floor sections, and the roof. A short set of stairs leads up to the entrance of the courthouse, which faces the camera and has windows placed low to the ground on either side of them. Two white doors with large windows in them and white curing stone above them sit at the top of the stairs. There's a window with a single white stone above it on either side if the doors, as well as four windows in a row above them. Four columns rise in front of both rows of windows to support a pediment with the "Dallam" and "1992" and "Covnty" carved into white stone rectangles set into the bricks. A white stone overhang runs above the pediment and along the rest of the building, dividing the bottom two rows of windows from a third row. On either side of the section of the courthouse with the columns and pediment are additional walls set slightly farther back, each with the same number of window rows. Another set of walls are set behind those walls, adding to the layered appearance of the building. The roofline of the courthouse is geometrically jagged and symmetrical. A crest carved from white stone, possibly with the letter "D" in it, is placed in the center of the building right under the roof's edge. In front of the courthouse a wide sidewalk and a yellow lawn, next to which is a brown car in the photo's left side and a blue flatbed truck in the photo's right side, with the text "Agricultural Ammonia" and the number 66 on its side. The vehicles are parallel parked on a grey brick street.
[Dallas County Courthouse in Dallas, TX]
Photograph of Dallas County Courthouse in Dallas, TX. The white courthouse faces towards the right edge of the photo and is mostly rectangular in structure. The main part of the building is tall and lacks windows, and has a tall rectangular tower attached to its right end. Attache to the front of this section of the building is a slightly shorter structure that projects outwards from the rest of the building a short distance. The projecting structure is rectangular in shape and has seven rows of gaps that resemble a window with shutters thrown outwards to let light in. Below this structure, at ground level, is an open space that allows access to the front doors of the courthouse, which are set into the main structure of the building. Dark letters spell out "Dallas County Courthouse" on the bottom of the projecting structure, above the doors to the courthouse. Potted trees and bushes decorate the space near the doors and around the outside of the courthouse. A person stands near the left corner of the building. Brown dirt occupies the majority of the ground in front of the courthouse, enclosed by a sidewalk that runs from the left side of the photo to the bottom right corner. On the other side of the sidewalk, in the bottom left corner of the image, is a paved road.
[Dallas County - Old Courthouse in Dallas, TX]
Photograph of Dallas County - Old Courthouse in Dallas, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the image, in front of a wide sidewalk that separates the road from a plot of red and grey dirt. Beyond the dirt and farther into the photo is another road that sits in front of the courthouse. Multiple vehicles park in front of or next to the courthouse. The building is a tall, wide structure made of dark red bricks and dark shingles on the roof. The courthouse has a central section that projects outwards from the rest of the building, its top coming to a triangular point, and circular towers at each of the building's corners, each with a pointe top. Narrow walls connect the two visible towers to the central section of the courthouse. The bottom floor of the building is darkly colored like the roof, with three archways in the central section leading to the courthouse's entrance. Above this first level, in the central section, are four rows of windows with the topmost row consisting of narrower windows centered within the section's triangular top. The towers each have one window followed by a gap and then a row of window, with a final row of windows sitting just below the edge of the towers' cone-shaped tops. The narrow walls between the towers and central section both have two rows of windows that align with the windows of the towers. The top of the courthouse slopes upwards to a flat edge with small sculptures at each corner while a small rectangular structure with railing along the edge of its flat roof sits in the center of the courthouse's roof. Outside of the courthouse, a smaller building sits to the left while a similarly large building sits farther away on …
[Delta County Courthouse in Cooper, TX]
Photograph of Delta County Courthouse in Cooper, TX. Two cars park on a paved road next to the sidewalk that runs in front of the courthouse. The sidewalk encloses the yellow lawn of the courthouse and connects to the walkway leading up to the building's entrance. In the left side of the lawn are green bushes and a leafless tree while the right side has additional plants and a stone slab with writing on it, plus a sign with the Texas silhouette on it. A short set of stairs lead up to the green doors of the building, which are set into a tall, thick archway made of a large white brick used throughout the rest of the courthouse, though the area of the building below the level of the doors is all green. The courthouse is rectangular in shape and has two rows of windows across its sides. The roof is flat and has a shorter rectangular structure sitting atop it.
[Denton County Courthouse in Denton, TX]
Photograph of Denton County Courthouse in Denton, TX. A road occupies the bottom edge of the image and includes a series of parking spaces occupied by three vehicles, all facing the yellow lawn of the courthouse. Multiple leafless trees occupy the lawn, as does a streetlight near the parked vehicles, while green bushes line the base of the courthouse's walls. The main part of the building is cubic in shape with walls made of orange bricks constructed to form three floors. On each side of the building are three rows of windows, all set into white frames, along with entryways consisting of short sets of stairs and brick archways held up by four red columns. Above each side's archway is a short wall set at the level of the second floor, each with four red columns sitting atop the walls and holding up a similar structure set at the level of the third floor. The columns at the third-floor level hold up large triangular pediments. At each corner of the courthouse is a tower which, similarly to the entryways on the sides, have red columns at each floor which hold up the floor above them. The towers have open-air balconies at each floor. The third-floor level of the towers are each topped by short brick walls with a singular row of small windows, which each hold up a sloping, darkly shingled dome. The narrow walls between the towers and the entryways on each side of the building have a single row of windows set into white frames. On top of the shingled roof of the courthouse's main section is a large clocktower with a brick base, which includes an open-air portion containing railing and columns. On top of the clocktower's base, at each corner, is a small, shingled dome. In …
[Detail shot of a Texas map]
Photograph of a detail shot of a Texas map. Blue paper covers the top half of the background behind the map as well as part of the top of Texas, while purple paper covers the bottom half of the background along with part of the Southern tip of Texas. The map itself is crisscrossed by yellow and green lines, likely indicating roads, and has various names outlined with blue or yellow boxes. A few spots of the map are partially filled by green, blue, or yellow color. Two paths drawn out in red marker originate from Houston with the bottom one going through San Antonio, passing through Fort Davis, and moving through Van Horn before disappearing off-camera towards El Paso. The second red line goes from Houston to Caldwell, passes through Caldwell and Odessa, and then moves past Loving before hitting the edge for Texas.
[Eastland County Courthouse in Eastland, TX]
Photo of Eastland County Courthouse in Eastland, TX. The courthouse is made of small, pale-yellow bricks and large stone blocks. The entrance of the building faces the right side of the photo and is made entirely of the stone blocks, which form three arches at the top of the stairs with the words "Eastland County Courthouse" carved above. Two stone plinths sit on either side of the stairs. The first floor of the building, at the same level as the arches, is also built out of stone and has a row of windows extending across the width of the building, along with another row of window below it at ground level. Above these rows and the roof of the arched entryway are more windows, creating two more rows. Between each row are lines of stone circles or shield shapes that serve as ornamentation for the building. The sections of building on either side of the entryway into the courthouse have flat roofs whose height stops a few feet short of the building sections behind them. In the center of the courthouse, behind the arches at the front, rises the tallest part of the building which has four visible rows of windows that extend up to a flat stone roof. The roof has shields bordered by eagles carved into the stone corners as well as a row of latticework windows between them. Outside of the building extends a short yellow lawn with leafless trees enclosed by a sidewalk filled with parking meters. The road surrounding the courthouse is made of red brick.
[Erath County Courthouse in Stephenville, TX]
Photograph of Erath County Courthouse in Stephenville, TX. The courthouse is a three-story building made of white stone and red brick with a large clocktower atop it. Each side of the building has three rows of windows with the bottom row's windows having curved tops, the top two rows being rectangular, and all having red-brick borders. Each side of the building has two sections projecting from the rest of the courthouse with one window on the first floor and two windows on the second and third floors. Each of these sections end in triangular roofs with three small circular windows at their tops. The clocktowers sits in the center of the grey-green tiled roof and has three narrow windows on each side, above which are half circle shuttered windows. Above those, on each side, is a dark clockface with white markings. The clocktower rises to a point, creating a tall triangular tower roof. Around the courthouse are short and tall trees along with bushes, all growing in short yellow grass. A sidewalk surrounds the courthouse, which separates the building from the road around it. A median runs from the bottom left corner of the photo into the bottom center and has parking meters on it. A pole with multiple traffic lights hanging from it stands in the right side of the photo, under which is a "Do not enter" sign.
[Falls County Courthouse in Marlin, TX]
Photograph of Falls County Courthouse in Marlin, TX. Two rows of cars parked diagonally sit in a parking lot in front of a flat-topped white building. A green lawn with tall, green trees and bushes growing in it surrounds the courthouse whose entrance faces the camera. A short set of stairs leads up to the entrance of the building which has three brown doors with large windows in them. Above the doors is a row of windows, then tall grey rectangles followed by another row of windows, which is repeated one more. This section of the building rises higher than the parts extending from either side of the courthouse's entryway. The parts of the building on either side of the tall center section have one row of windows at ground level and two rows of windows above them, with each column of windows divided by rectangular sections that project slightly from the rest of the building. A tall, thin metal structure rises from atop the center of the building and has a few wires hanging from it onto the courthouse's flat roof.
[Fannin County Courthouse in Bonham, TX]
Photograph of Fannin County Courthouse in Bonham, TX. The center of an intersection fills the foreground of the photo, with a traffic light hanging at the top edge of the image. The corner of two of the intersection's roads, directly across from the camera, has curbs that separate the streets from the courthouse's property. Two cars drive alongside the curbs while about a dozen other vehicles park in the lot surrounding the courthouse. Also within the parking lot are two flag poles, one flying the American flag and the other flying the Texas flag, two streetlights, and a few short trees. The courthouse building itself is white and rectangular, with some sections of the walls projecting outwards a short distance. The entrance to the courthouse is shadowed by a geometric archway that stands out from the rest of the building slightly. Across the walls of the building, except for a central gap on the left side of the building, are three rows of tall windows that are grouped together into vertical columns. In the center of the two visible walls of the courthouse, near the edge of the flat roof, are simple clockfaces. In the background behind the courthouse, on either side of the building, are lines of storefronts.
[Fisher County Courthouse in Roby, TX]
Photograph of Fisher County Courthouse in Roby, TX. Paved roads on either side of a median run horizontally across the foreground of the image, with a car appearing from the right edge of the image onto a patch of gravel next to the median. Beyond the roads is the courthouse, which sits on a green lawn enclosed by a curb occupied by streetlights at regular intervals. Multiple large, fluffy trees and bushes grows around the base of the courthouse. The visible sections of the building include two areas rectangular in shape and placed in an intersecting "X" shape, with large triangular pediments supported by tall columns placed between each arm of the "X". One end of an arm of the "X" portion of the building faces the camera and has, placed before it, a short white platform with stairs on either side. Across the walls of the building are two rows of tall windows. The columned pediments rise up to the height of the flat roofs of the "X" section of the courthouse, where a chimney can be seen.
[Franklin County Courthouse in Mount Vernon, TX]
Photograph of Franklin County Courthouse in Mount Vernon, TX. A wide paved road sits in front of the courthouse while a narrower one runs past the building's left side. The green lawn around the courthouse is occupied by tall green trees and small bushes, and is enclosed by a sidewalk. At the left end of the sidewalk, near the left edge of the photo, is a sign reading "Speed limit 30". The courthouse building is white and made of stone blocks, with an entrance shadowed by a large triangular pediment supported by four tall columns. The columns rest on short walls sitting on either side of a short set of stairs that lead from the sidewalk to the front doors of the courthouse. Running across the width of the building, under the entrance's columns, are two rows of windows set into white frames. One window occupies the center of the triangular pediment over the building's entrance. The roof of the courthouse is flat and has a white clocktower sitting at its center, which has black and white clockfaces set into the sides of its dome.
[Freestone County Courthouse in Fairfield, TX]
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.
[Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole, TX]
Photograph of Gaines County Courthouse in Seminole, TX. A yellow car drives past the camera on a wide paved road, passing by a wide building made of white and blue blocks. The vehicle drives on near the camera past a median with a post on it containing signs saying "JCT" and "62" along with "JCT" and "180". A yellow sign and a stop sign stand at the end of the medium at the center of the photo. On the other side of the median the car drives past, farther into the photo, the building sits in a green lawn populated by bushes and a few trees. The building itself has an entrance that faces the left side of the photo and is made up by a white rectangular overhang whose walls border two doors above which are three rows of short rectangular windows. The sections of the courthouse on either side of the entryway rise to a lower height and have only two rows of windows above the ground level row. A short staircase leads from a walkway up to the doors. The section of the courthouse the doors are attached to is set back into the building a short distance with four rectangular columns supporting the roof. Along the front side of the building are rows of windows, one ground level row and three more above it, with each being divided horizontally white a row of white stone. Between the rows of white stone and between each window are blue stone blocks. On the side of the building that faces the right side of the camera is a block of windows with two roof levels. This section, along with the rest of the building, has flat white roofs.
[Galveston County Courthouse in Galveston, TX]
Photograph of Galveston County Courthouse in Galveston, TX. A road runs along the bottom edge of the image, separated from the sidewalk parallel to it by a line of grass. Towards the left side of the photo, the sidewalk splits off into three paths that head left, right, and center through patches of grass occupied by bushy trees and palm trees of varying heights. At the center of the intersection of the sidewalks is a short planter with a bush of red flowers in it. In a nearby patch of grass is a black sign on a short pole with the Texas state silhouette at its top and indistinguishable text below. On that same patch of grass, near the right edge of the photo, is a simple white bench with a person in a yellow shirt sitting on it. A short distance into the image, beyond the grass and trees, is the courthouse building. A short rectangular building with walls that are white on the bottom half and red on the top half sits in front of a much taller building that is also rectangular, though entirely white in color. The shorter building has one row of windows clustered near the building's center, which is shaded by a flat structure held up by rectangular columns. The taller building has four visible rows of tall windows with thin rectangular lines between each column of windows. Both the shorter and taller building have flat roofs, though the taller building has a small, short rectangular structure appearing above its top edge.
[Garner State Park in Concan, TX]
Photograph of Garner State Park in Concan, TX. The courthouse sits facing the left edge of the image in a yellow lawn populated by nearly leafless trees and a few bushes, enclosed by a sidewalk that runs next to a paved road. The ground is made up by red bricks in the bottom left corner of the photo, contrasting against the paved ground next to them. The courthouse's lawn has streetlights next to its sidewalk and near its entrance, and white stone sitting area towards the left edge of the image. This sitting area includes stone benches and plinths, with one rising taller than the others and having a plaque near its base. The entrance of the courthouse is made up by three archways in a white stone or concrete wall. Two rows of windows span in wall above the arches, while slighter lower sections of the building sit on either side of the central, arched portion.
[Garner State Park in Concan, TX]
Photograph of Garner State Park in Concan, TX. A road runs across the width of the photo in front of the courthouse's lawn, which has tall leafless trees growing in rows that extend out from the building. The front side of the courthouse directly faces the camera. More trees similarly grow out in rows from the left and right sides of the building, all growing in a short green lawn. A walkway leads from the road to the entrance of the courthouse, with a stone rectangle sitting on it a few feet away from the edge of the road. The stone has a motif at its top of a star in a laurel wreath, likely indicating a monument or memorial. The courthouse itself is partially obscured by tree branches and their shadows, though its entrance is visible as having tall columns that hold up arches that sit at the second-floor level of the red brick building. The courthouse has two rows of windows across its walls, with an additional window visible above the entryway's arches. The roof of the courthouse appears to mostly be flat.
[Garza County Courthouse in Post, TX]
Photograph of Garza County Courthouse in Post, TX. A brick road occupies the photo's foreground, running parallel to the green lawn of the courthouse. At the right edge of the lawn is a curving road on which two cars drive away on. At the left side of the lawn is a flagpole with the American flag at its top. A brick planter of red flowers sits near the flagpole while short trees and fluffy bushes occupy the rest of the lawn at various locations. The courthouse building faces the left edge of the image slightly and is rectangular in shape, made of red bricks with pale stone used as an accent in a few places. The building also has a flat roof and three rows of windows across its sides. The entrance to the building is a short rectangular structure that projects a short distance from the rest of the building, providing a small amount of shade over the front doors. Above the doors, written across a line of stone, are the words "Garza County".
[Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman, TX]
Photograph of Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman, TX. A yellow lawn sits in front of the courthouse building, occupied by trees of varying heights and foliage. Towards the right edge of the photo are two small bushes planted on either side of a small stone slab with an indistinguishable motif and writing on its surface. The entrance to the courthouse is near the left side of the image, where a short set of stairs lead up from a concrete walkway to the front doors. The building is made entirely of white stone blocks except for the doors and windowsills, which are all blue-green in color. The courthouse has four rows of windows, with the bottommost row consisting of small windows set just above the ground. All of the windows are divided vertically by clusters of engraved lines. Above the top row of windows, carved into the stone of the building, are the words "Grayson County Courthouse". Thin lines of carved patterns decorate the edges of the courthouse's flat roof.
[Grimes County Courthouse in Anderson, TX]
Photograph of Grimes County Courthouse in Anderson, TX. The courthouse sits in front of an empty parking lot with a yellow curb at its center, which has a sign on it reading "Keep right " with an arrow. The courthouse sits on an elevated platform with a grassy lawn enclosed by concrete walls, with three short sets of stairs leading from the parking lot to the top of the platform. The building itself is comprised of two rectangular sections, one narrower and positioned in front of the other though both have roofs that slope upwards into triangular points. Two chimneys rise from either side of the courthouse's shingled roof while a pointed tower rises from the roof's center, its white walls occupied by three tall windows. Along the brick walls of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows in white frames while columns of stone bricks lines the corners of both rectangular sections of the building. The from entrance of the courthouse has two white doors bordered on either side by a column of stone bricks which rise up to the second floor of the building, where another set of white doors are shaded by a flat white overhang. The white rectangular supports of the overhang extend down through a white platform at the bottom of the second-floor doors and down to the ground in front of the first-floor doors. The second-floor doors are accessed by white stairs that extend from either side of the doors' platform, turn ninety-degrees towards the camera, and then extend downwards until they meet the ground. White railing lines either side of each set of stars. Green bushes sit between each set of stairs and the front doors, as well as line the base of the building's left and right sides. Power lines crisscross …
[Guadalupe County Courthouse in Sequin, TX]
Photograph of Guadalupe County Courthouse in Sequin, TX. The building is white and rectangular with a flat roof and two grey doors leading into it. The courthouse faces the camera directly and has one row of ground level windows with two more rows above it. A wall spanning the center of the building sits in front of the courthouse's building, with bushes running along it base. A short set of stairs leads up to the wall, extending from a walkway a pedestrian approaches, which leads to a sidewalk running around the lawn. Trees grow at each edge of the photo, with foliage spilling into the photo. A blue car is parallel parked next to the sidewalk in the right side of the image, while a brown car similarly parked sits across the road closer to the camera.
[Hamilton County Courthouse in Hamilton, TX]
Photograph of Hamilton County Courthouse in Hamilton, TX. A parking lot with long yellow blocks dividing it horizontally sits in the foreground before the courthouse and has, in the right side of the photo, a blue car parallel parked next to a yellow block beyond which is an off-white car parked facing the camera. A figure in long clothing and carrying a bag approaches the cars form the left side of the photo. At the edge of the parking lot running alongside the edge of the courthouse's lawn is a short fence held up by blocks. The lawn beside it is yellow and has multiple tall, leafless trees. The courthouse itself faces the right side of the photo slightly and is made of large, pale-orange stone blocks. The entrance has a short set of wide stairs and one set of doors one set of windows on either side of them, along with three windows above. Four pairs of white columns sitting on stone bases hold up a wide white pediment with the words "Hamilton County Courthouse" above its bottom edge in brown letters. A circular design with a star at its center sits in the middle of the pediment above words identifying the courthouse. Two small towers sit on either side of the building's entrance section, possessing two rows of tall windows at the building's second and third levels and ending in turreted tops. Rising to a slighter shorter height is the remainder of the courthouse's structure, with three rows of windows, three in each, occupying the walls next to each tower. The left side of the building faces the left edge of the photo and similarly has three rows of windows. Except for the towers and entryway of the courthouse, the building's roof is flat. Some windows have air …
[Hansford County Courthouse in Spearman, TX]
Photograph of Hansford County Courthouse in Spearman, TX. A car parks in front of the courthouse as it faces the camera from behind a row of tall, leafless trees. Both the courthouse and the street in front of it are made of bricks, though the road's are dark brown while the courthouse's are orange. The lawn around the courthouse is yellow and has a few bushes planted near its trees. A flagpole flying both the American and Texas flags sits at the end of a walkway that leads to the windowed doors of the courthouse. White stone outlines both the doors to the building and the second-floor windows above them. The courthouse itself has a flat roof and two rows of windows spanning the central section of the building and the shorter sections on either side of it. At the bottom of the rightmost section of the building, peeking above the ground, is another row of windows.
[Hardeman County Courthouse in Quanah, TX]
Photograph of Hardeman County Courthouse in Quanah, TX. A blue-gray car drives past the camera while three more vehicles, a red truck next to a blue van and white car, park in front of the orange brick and stone courthouse. The stone appears mostly as a base under the courthouse's lowest row of windows. The entrance sits into the building a short distance and includes two windowed doors with one window on either side of them, along with a row of four windows above. Two white columns sit on either side of the doors and hold up a short balcony above the doors and row of windows. A third row of windows fills the space above the balcony. On either side of this entry section of the courthouse are three rows of windows, with three windows in them each. On the left side of the building, which faces the left edge of the photo, is a second columned entrance, this one with a small pediment sitting above it, and a fire escape extending from the third floor to ground level. The roof of the courthouse is a pale blue and slopes upward to a small tower sitting at its center. The tower has short white columns and railing along with a pale blue dome topped by a white spherical structure.
[Hardin County Courthouse in Kountze, TX]
Photograph of Hardin County Courthouse in Kountze, TX. The courthouse is a yellow building with an upward-sloping, triangular roof and three offset sections that project a short distance out from the rest of the building. Across most of the building are two rows of windows, with the bottom row containing arched windows while the upper row is made up by rectangular windows. The center offset section of the building contains the front entrance to the courthouse, which has a short set of stairs leading up to its doors. The other two offset sections sit on either side of and a short distance away from the central offset section, each with three rows of windows rather than two. The roof of the courthouse spans the width of these two offset sections, leaving the far sides of the building with a simple, flat roof. At the left end of the building a shorter, single-floor building with arched windows is visible, behind which is another building that appears rectangular and taller. In front of the courthouse is a green lawn occupied by multiple tall trees whose foliage slightly obscures some details of the courthouse. In the bottom left corner of the photo are two wooden benches, one pale blue-green and the other dark green.
[Hemphill County Courthouse in Canadian, TX]
Photograph of Hemphill County Courthouse in Canadian, TX. The courthouse is a square building made of red brick with white-frame windows and a clocktower. It sits on a yellow lawn with leafless trees, contained by a short pale wall. Below and next to the wall is a sidewalk that runs alongside a curb that three cars and a truck have parked in front of, facing away from the camera. The ground they park on is made of grey break, laid out in rows. The entrance the courthouse has two doors containing and bordered by windows and faces the left side of the photo. Three rows of windows span the width of each side of the courthouse, with the bottommost rows partially peeking above the edge of the ground. A fire escape on the right side of the building, which faces the right edge of the photo, extends from the third floor to the ground. The clocktower of the courthouse sits on the building's flat roof and has a row of thin windows under its clockfaces, which are shaded by short white overhangs covered by blue roofing. A dome sits at the top of the clocktower with two thin poles or wires extending rom it into the air.
[Henderson County Courthouse in Athens, TX]
Photograph of Henderson County Courthouse in Athens, TX. A multi-lane road runs across the bottom of the photo, separated from a parking lot by a yellow curb. A single car sits in the parking lot in front of a sidewalk lined with parking meters. Beyond the sidewalk is the yellow lawn of the courthouse, occupied by tall leafless trees and short bushes. In the right side of the photo, four people stand around a tall bush while facing the courthouse. A concrete walkway in the left side of the photo leads from the edge of the parking lot to the set of stairs leading to the building's front doors. The entrance of the courthouse includes two glass doors set into white frames with a small triangular pediment above them while a larger pediment sits above all three of the building's floors, affixed to the edge of the courthouse's flat roof. Four white columns support the large pediment, two on either side of the front doors, and rest on white rectangular bases. The section of the building that the pediment and front doors are attached to has two additional sections diagonally connected to it, one of the left and one on the right. Across all three sections are three rows of windows divided vertically by dark red bricks, The rest of the building, including the roof's edge, it white. A dark chimney sits on the roof, seen to the left of the large pediment above the building's entrance. To the right of the large pediment, a gold dome with a pole rising from its top sits on the roof.
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