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[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[Hill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, TX]]
Photograph of Hill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, TX]. The three-story white stone building sits on a green lawn filled with a few dark green bushes and trees along with parking meters, which line the sidewalk surrounding the courthouse. In the left side of the photo, a sign saying "See you in church Sunday" sits in the lawn. The widest side of the courthouse faces the right edge of the photo, though a large tree blocks its details from view. Each corner of the building resembles a tower as they sit out from the rest of the building a short distance, their grey sloping roofs ending in flat tops with small windows in the sides. Three rows of windows span the width of the courthouse's walls, appearing in pairs throughout most of the building. In the center of both of the visible sides of the courthouse are grey, triangular roofs held up by tall columns. A white clocktower sits in the center of the courthouse's roof. It has a sloping, windowed base supporting a straighter section with windows which is topped by the final section with the clockfaces. A weathervane rises from the top of the clocktower.
[Jack County Courthouse in Jacksboro, TX]
Photograph of Jack County Courthouse in Jacksboro, TX. A road runs in front of the courthouse, on which a red car drive towards the left edge of the photo while a white car begins to emerge from the left side. Two more cars park at the edge of the courthouse's sidewalk, which encloses the building's yellow lawn. In the left side of the image, three benches sit on the lawn to the right of a line of bushes leading to more bushes and a tree at the courthouse's base and an empty flagpole. Next to the benches is a post with multiple white signs that are mostly unreadable except for one with "1962 state AA football champs tigers" written in blue letters. More bushes and trees grow at the opposite corner of the building and extend to the right edge of the image. The courthouse itself faces the left side of the photo, is made of a white stone material, and has a flat roof. A short set of stairs leads up to three set of brown doors set into the building, Between the sets of doors and each column of windows in the courthouse are sections of the building carved with tall vertical lines. Three rows of windows wrap around the building, with a few additional windows visible at the front side of the courthouse, just above the lawn. At the top edge of the building is "Jack County Courthouse" carved below the roof's edge.
[Lamb County Courthouse in Littlefield, TX]
Photograph of Lamb County Courthouse in Littlefield, TX. Paved ground surrounds the courthouse, interrupted by a median extending from the left edge of the photo into the center. A white car drives around the edge of the median, away from the camera and approaching a blue car parked in front of the courthouse to the right of the doors. Two trees sit on either side of the doors, with a flagpole standing next to the left tree. The entrance to the courthouse has white doors with a grid of square windows across them on the white walls around the doors. Surrounding this entryway is a darker material with the words "Lamb County" visible on it above the doors. The dark building material is used throughout the first-floor level of the building, while a lighter brick material is used for the second floor and a short rectangular structure on top of the roof. Two rows of windows span the width of the building, one across each floor of the courthouse.
[Lipscomb County Courthouse in Lipscomb, TX]
Photograph of Lipscomb County Courthouse in Lipscomb, TX. The courthouse is surrounded by yellow grass as it faces the right edge of the photo. An off-camera tree's branches fill the top right corner of the photo while another tree grows to the left of a short set of stairs leading up to the courthouse's doors. Two rectangular blocks made up of red bricks sits on either side of the stairs, a material again only in bottommost level of the building which contains windows that sit just above the lawn. The doors of the courthouse meanwhile are set into white frames as are the windows around them, together forming a shape that curves into a half-circle at the top. Four white columns, two on either side of the doors, extend across two floors of the courthouse to support a white pediment attached at the roof's edge. On the white block between the columns and pediment is "19 Lipscomb Covnty 16" in dark letters. Two rows of tall windows, some with air conditioning units, span the width of both this side of the courthouse and the side facing the left edge of the photo, all set into walls made of yellow bricks. A few feet from the front edge of the courthouse the building rises up a few more feet to accommodate a row of short windows that sit above the lower roof of the building. A chimney rises from the higher roof.
[McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, TX]
Photograph of McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, TX. A busy road runs in front of the courthouse, occupied by different colored cars and trucks. A tall set of stairs runs from a sidewalk right in front of the road up to the doors of the courthouse, with white stone plinths bordering the stairs and rising in height at regular intervals. On either side of the stairs at ground level are green lawns and tall green trees whose foliage partially obscures the courthouse's walls. The doors to the building are white, as is the rest of the building, and have a pediment set above them with indistinguishable words written on it. Pairs of windows surround the doors on all sides, each with its own smaller pediment. Six columns rise over two floors of the building, three on either side of the door, and hold of the base of a central section of the third floor that sticks out from the rest of the building. The rest of the building consists mostly of walls extending on either side of the middle section, each with four rows of windows with the bottommost row set right above ground level at the same height as the base of the stairs. A pediment occupies the center of both walls' rooflines, with more columns appearing to support the decoration. The roof of the building slopes upward, with a small rectangular structure with its own sloping roof sitting above the pediment on the courthouse's right wall. The roof over the center of the courthouse has baes for multiple humanoid statues that stand around a circular base with tall windows interrupted at regular intervals by pairs of columns atop which sit sculptures of birds. A large dome tops the structure, with its own smaller dome sitting on small columns …
[Montgomery County Courthouse in Conroe, TX]
Photograph of Montgomery County Courthouse in Conroe, TX. A road and a line of parking spaces span the width of the paved ground in front of the flat-roofed courthouse, with a single car parked in one of the lot spaces. A sidewalk runs in front of the parking spaces with parking meters set at regular intervals on it. A green lawn containing short green trees and lines of bushes sits between the sidewalk and the courthouse, interrupted only by a walkway that leads up to the entrance of the courthouse. A base made of bricks sits in front of the stairs leading up to the courthouse's doors and has two flagpoles on it, one with the Texas flag and the other with the American flag. An overhang with the words "Montgomery County Courthouse" on it in brown letters is held up by white rectangular columns, providing shade over the doors that lead into the courthouse. On either side of this part of the building are additional sections that extend farther out onto the lawn, both with a single row of tall windows spanning the building's width. Behind this initial building is a second one made mostly of white stone, towering into the sky and made up by multiple sections of varying heights arranged symmetrically around the center y-axis of the courthouse. One section of this taller building has the words "Montgomery County Courthouse" carved into it.
[Moore Conty Courthouse in Dumas, TX]
Photograph of Moore County Courthouse in Dumas, TX. A sidewalk separates a rough road from the courthouse's lawn, in which tall green trees grown in sections of lawn divided up by the sidewalk. In the ride side of the photo, on a section of sidewalk, is a tall stone rectangle with indistinguishable text on it and a small pot of flowers on its base, likely a memorial or monument. More trees and bushes occupy other sections of the lawn, surrounding the corners of the courthouse. A short set of stairs leads from the ground to the entrance to the courthouse, which faces the left edge of the photo. Three arches appear in a rectangular entryway made of white stone blocks, with a relief sculpture of a person in each top corner of the entryway's structure. A stone plinth sits in front of the rightmost arch. The remainder of the courthouse sits on a stone block base and is made of small brown bricks, with smaller sections of stone used as accents around and above windows. The building has three rows of windows anda flat roof, with bird sculptures attached to each corner of the courthouse.
[Ochiltree County Courthouse in Perryton, TX]
Photograph of Ochiltree County Courthouse in Perryton, TX. A road fills the foreground of the photo with a white car peeking into the photo from the left side while a second car sits parked at the edge of the sidewalk that runs in front of the courthouse property. Short orange bushes sit in long lines of yellow grass in front of the courthouse along with tall leafless trees. More bushes and trees with leaves sit along the base of the building. A short set of stairs leads up to the doors of the pale, brick and stone courthouse, which are windowed and set into dark frames. The section of the building the doors are set into faces the left edge of the photo and sticks out slightly from the rest of the building. The courthouse has three rows of windows with two of them being above the level of the doors while the last row sits below the doors' height in the building. The roof of the courthouse is flat with no ornamentation. Telephone poles and the liens attached to them occupy various positions in the photo including on the sidewalk, to the right of the courthouse, and in the background beyond the courthouse where flat-topped red and orange brick buildings sit with a few cars parked in front of them.
[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.
[Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX]
Photograph of Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX. Shores made of white rock appear in the bottom left corner and center of the photo with both short and tall grasses growing between cracks in the rocks. Water fills the space between the two shotes, occupying most of the lower third of the image. Trees grow on the central patch of stone and on the grassy shore beyond it, forming a forest. A pedestrian is visible in the right side of the photo as they walk past a small hill towards the forest, while a parked car sits mostly hidden by leaves farther up the hill. Foliage fills the middle third of the photo, obscuring the base of a tall rocky wall which almost touches the top edge of the image. Patches of dark green grow on the side of the rockface while trees grow on the top.
[Robertson County Courthouse in Franklin, TX]
Photograph of Robertson County Courthouse in Franklin, TX. Telephone poles sit on a stretch of green grass next to a section of paved ground that two cars sit on as they parallel park next to the courthouse's sidewalk. Grass fills the space between the sidewalk and the courthouse and contains multiple large green trees whose foliage almost entirely covers the walls of the courthouse. The building has orange brick walls with a row of circular windows near the edge of its dark gray roofline. Each side of the courthouse has a square section that sticks out from the center of the building. The roof on these sections has stones in the shape of flat-topped cones on each corner. In the center section of the roof sits a clock tower which has one tall window in each side of its orange brick base. The clockfaces sit on the sides of the tower's brown, sloping roof which has a small platform at its top with a column-supported roof. Upon that pointed roof is a weathervane.
[Sherman County Courthouse in Stratford TX]
Photograph of Sherman County Courthouse in Stratford TX. A walkway comprised of squares leads up to a corner of the courthouse, patches of grass growing between some of the cracks in the path. On either side of the path is green grass with tall trees growing in the right half while a short tree grows in the left half. The courthouse is made of white stone blocks and a has pink-tiled overhang running below the edge of the roof on each side of the building. Above the overhang is a tan wall that has a shape including rectangles with a half-circle at their top used at the left, used three times on each side of the building at the left, right, and center of each side. The doors into the building are on the side of the building facing the left edge of the photo, shaded by an overhang with a balcony atop it. The Overhang is supported by rectangular columns on short white walls what sit on either side of dark pink stairs that lead from the ground to the doors into the courthouse. Attached to the corner of the building facing the camera is a wire that stretches to the top left corner of the photo, attaching to the edge of a tall pole.
[Sterling County Courthouse in Sterling City, TX]
Photograph of Sterling County Courthouse in Sterling City, TX. A paved road sits in front of the courthouse's lawn, with a walkway running from the edge of the road to the entrance of the building. The grass on either side of the walkway is yellow, with each half having one leafless tree growing in it near the road. A telephone pole stands near the tree on the right side of the path while a flagpole rises on the left side, closer to the courthouse's doors. There are three sets of doors separated by white columns on red brick bases. Above each door is a half-circle window, which have rectangular windows one floor above them. To the left and right of this central section of the courthouse extend walls made of orange bricks, each one spanned by three rows of tall windows. The roof of the courthouse is flat and lined with a thin white rim made of white stone.
[Wilbarger County Courthouse in Vernon, TX]
Photograph of Wilbarger County Courthouse in Vernon, TX. A green lawn fills the photo's foreground, planted with bushes that contain pink flowers. Beyond the grass is a gravel area with a bench facing a short water fountain, wooden walls containing the fallen water while sitting on a brick base. Tall unlit lamps with teardrop-shaped tops sit in the grass and behind the fountain. In the area beyond the fountain is a wall of green foliage tall enough to almost entirely block the courthouse from view. What is visible of the buildings includes walls made up by stone bricks and multiple green A-frame roofs. Additional foliage extends from off-camera tree silhouetted against the cloudy sky, filling the top corners of the photo.
[Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler, TX]
Photograph of Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler, TX. A driveway extends from the foreground of the photo, leading to a paved road that runs alongside the edge of a sidewalk that sits in front of the courthouse. One car drives from the right side of the photo on the road while seven others sit parked in front of the courthouse. The building is wide enough to extend off-camera in both directions and is made up white bricks. The door to the courthouse sits in the center of the building with pilasters on either side of the entrance, while an overhanging ledge sits above. The courthouse has three rows of windows across its width, with the bottommost row sitting on the same level as the door. The top two rows are almost entirely covered by a row of tall columns. The flat roof of the courthouse is lined by an off-white balcony.
[Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler County, TX]
Photograph of Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler, TX. Paved ground fills the foreground with a single car visible at the photo's right edge, driving off-camera. A yellow lawn enclosed by short white walls sits farther into the scene, multiple tall trees without foliage growing in the lawn while a telephone pole sits in the left side of the photo next to a sign with an arrow and a silhouette of Texas containing the text "Farm Road" and the numbers "2473". A flagpole also rises from the left half of the lawn, the American flag flying at its top. The courthouse itself is made mostly of red bricks with lines of white brick at its base, top, and under each window. The entrance faces the edge of the photo and includes a red door with a half-circle window above it. Four white columns rise across all three floors of the building to support the top white edge of the roof. "Wheeler County Courthouse" is written with large black letters across this white edge. The courthouse has three rows of windows across each side of the building, each one set in white frames. The roof of the courthouse slants upward slightly and three include triangular pediments on its front side, one in the center, and one at each end of the building. Another triangular pediment is seen in the center of the side facing the left edge of the photo.
[Young County Courthouse in Graham, TX]
Photograph of Young County Courthouse in Graham, TX. Paved ground spans the bottom of the photo, sitting next to a row of parking meters farther into the scene. A sidewalk runs alongside the meters, separating the paved area from the yellow lawn of the courthouse. A few trees grow along the edge of the sidewalk as well as the walkway that leads from the pavement to the building's entrance, which includes a set of stairs divided down the center by white railing. A line of bushes extends along the courthouse's base on either side of the stairs. Foliage from a tree obscures the doors to the building from view. The courthouse's tall front side fills the width of the photo and includes a central section with gray walls on either side. This central section has tall black windows divided by white lines spanning it, with orange walls running along the bottom edge of the wall as well as filling the top half of the wall. A tall, thin metal structure sits on the flat roof of the courthouse with powerlines running across the photo behind it.
[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.
[Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, TX]
Photograph of Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, TX. A river extends from the bottom right corner of the image, running to distant trees in the left, middle area of the photo. On the right shore of the river are large fluffy trees whose foliage seems to stretch out towards the river. On the left shore, in the bottom left corner of the image, concrete slopes down into the water while a bit farther into the photo sits a sidewalk running alongside the river. Standing near the edge of the sidewalk closest to the viewer are two older adults: a man with glasses and short silver hair in a yellow short-sleeved shirt and dark line-patterned pants and a woman with short gray hair wearing a long-sleeved purple shirt and long pale-pink pants with open-toe sandals. Beyond the duo is a large tree with its branches outstretched over the edge of the river.
[A house in Decatur, TX]
Photograph of a house in Decatur, TX. A pale grassy hill rises from the bottom edge of the photo, a leafless tree sitting to the left at it top. Leafless bushes sit farther into the photo at the hill's top, partially obscuring leafy bushes and trees from view. A tall tree with green foliage rises along the right edge of the image, rising from the top of the hill into the sky. Beyond the green plants on the hill sits the house, one corner pointed towards the camera. The building is made of off-white bricks with faded red sloping roofing. The bottom half of the corner facing the camera is made up by arches supported by thin rectangular columns, all holding up a balcony with iron-wrought railing. Above the balcony, the walls of the building zigzag as the different sections of the house meet while a single row of tall windows spans their width. The red sloping roofing tops the edges of these sections, with iron-wrought railing at their tops. A tower sits near the right edge of the house and has A-frame shaped roofs on each of its four sides, its top disappearing off-camera. A chimney rises a shorter distance into the air on the opposite side of the building, sitting behind the railing of the left side of the house's roof.
[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.
[Milam City Jail House in Cameron, TX]
Photograph of Milam City Jail House in Cameron, TX. A cracked pavement road fills the bottom third of the image, beyond which a red brick building with white stone accents sits amongst greenery. Bushes of varying sizes line the building and occupy its lawn, which is enclosed by a curb and has posts along the edge facing the road as well as a red and white fire hydrant towards the center of the image. To the left of the courthouse and its plants is a white car parked facing the building next to a red car that's similarly parked. The courthouse itself appears to have a central tower with rectangular sections extending from each of its sides, all rising to a lower height than the tower. The first floor of the building has tall windows with half-circle tops outlined with white stone. Above a line of white stone running across all of the courthouse's walls are the second and third floors each with a row of rectangular windows. Each of these windows has a block of white stone set above its top. The tower has a row of windows in its walls as well. Each corner of the building has a block of white stone shaped like an upside-down cone sitting on a cylindrical brick base, while rectangular red brick shapes sit in each wall with a short turreted wall in-between each one. To the right of the courthouse hangs a sign with partially visible text reading as "Hote Mila".
[A Texas map, 1]
Photograph of a Texas map. The top of the Texas map is cut to follow the general upper shape of Texas. The map includes the borders of each county in the state, each one with a red dot within its outline, some highlighted in a dark yellow. Additional spots of yellow appear in clusters in West Texas on the map, spotted in patches of dark orange as well. Lines denoting roads also stretch across the map, linking many of the red dots on the map together. Outside of Texas on the map is a small flag made up by a left-aligned horizontal blue triangle with a white five-pointed star, both on a background that's red on the bottom half and white on the top with the text "Drive friendly". Below that is a large table filled with columns of text that fill the paper under the bottom left edge of the Texas map. A table of text that slopes down from the left occupies the bottom left corner of the photograph, with sections alternating between blue and yellow background colors. Under the right edge of the Texas outline is a blue rectangle with the text "Pitch In!" paired with an icon of a man stretching an arm over a trashcan. There are also two more tables of text.
[A Texas map, 2]
Photograph of a Texas map. The top of the Texas map is cut to follow the general upper shape of Texas. The map includes the borders of each county in the state, each one with a red dot within its outline, some highlighted in a dark yellow. Additional spots of yellow appear in clusters in West Texas on the map, spotted in patches of dark orange as well. Lines denoting roads also stretch across the map, linking many of the red dots on the map together. Outside of Texas on the map is a small flag made up by a left-aligned horizontal blue triangle with a white five-pointed star, both on a background that's red on the bottom half and white on the top with the text "Drive friendly". Below that is a large table filled with columns of text that fill the paper under the bottom left edge of the Texas map. A table of text that slopes down from the left occupies the bottom left corner of the photograph, with sections alternating between blue and yellow background colors. Under the right edge of the Texas outline is a blue rectangle with the text "Pitch In!" paired with an icon of a man stretching an arm over a trashcan. There are also two more tables of text.
[A Texas map on a door]
Photograph of a Texas map on a door. The photo focuses on the Texas section of a map of the United States of America and includes various colored lines denoting different roads. Each state is outlined in yellow and has its state name and notable regions named in red text white bodies of water are labelled with blue text. Two paths have been drawn in blue marker along the map's roads, with one path extending through West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and beyond, while the other zigzags to and through the Texas Panhandle before continuing through Oklahoma and onto Colorado. Both paths have stars marked in blue at various points of the paths. In the bottom left of the map is a downward sloping table of text next to a mini map. On the opposite side of the map, under the Southeast coast of Texas, is the Exxon logo, a table of toll road information, and another mini map. The door the map sits on has dark brown wood and a gold doorknob, and occupies the bottom third of the photo.
[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.
[Limestone County Courthouse in Groesbeck, TX]
Photograph of Limestone County Courthouse in Groesbeck, TX. A white truck in the right side of the photo drives from a red brick road, past a grassy median, and towards the concrete driveway of the courthouse, which curves from the left side of the image towards the right. On either side of the driveway are small patches of grass in the form of a lawn and a median, while a black and white car sits parked in the driveway directly in front of the courthouse. A tall tree and multiple bushes are planed around the base of the building. The courthouse is made of dark red bricks and white stone and faces the right side of the photo, with a small set of stairs leading up to its entrance. The building has two horizontal rows of tall windows across the main section of the building as well as two horizontal rows of smaller windows, one near the roof's edge and one along the bottom edge of the building. The small windows near the edge of the roof have a small, railed balcony in front of them, spanning most of the building's width. For the main two horizontal rows of windows at the front of the courthouse, stone columns divide each vertical row of the windows. Additional columns appear on the left side of the building, which faces the left edge of the photo, and are holding up a pediment with a design carved at its top. The design is also used on either side of the courthouse's corners, at the edge of the roof. The roof itself is flat, with only two thin metal structures on top of it.
[Lynn County Courthouse in Tahoka, TX]
Photograph of Lynn County Courthouse in Tahoka, TX. A red brick road fills the bottom half of the photo, in the right corner of which is the edge of a car, extending towards the background until meeting the curbed edges of a grassy median with a streetlamp set into a base with "Welcome" written on it. Beyond this median, the courthouse sits on a green lawn planted with bushes and trees, and faces the left side of the photo, a small set of stairs leading from the ground to its entrance. The building is made of red bricks, orange concrete, and white stone. Four white columns rise in front of the courthouse's entrance while two stand on the right side of the building, which faces the right edge of the photo. The building has four rows of windows across each of its walls: one at the bottom of the building. two across the middle, and one along the top. Above and below the uppermost row of windows runs a line of orange concrete. Sitting above both the lines and the top row of windows on each side of the building is a circular design made of white stone.
[Milam County Courthouse in Cameron, TX]
Photograph of Milam County Courthouse in Cameron, TX. The courthouse faces the left side of the photo as it sits on a green lawn enclosed by a sidewalk, in front of which is a green parallel-parked car. The corner of a second vehicle appears in the bottom right corner of the photo. On the right side of the courthouse's lawn is a green bench that a person sits on, accompanied by a tall tree and a short lamp post. On the left side of the image, next to the walkway leading to the courthouse's doors, is a white sign with a seal on it and "Navy" written on it. The courthouse's entrance has a small set of stairs leading up to its windowed doors which are enclosed by a pair of columns on either side, as well as a pediment above the columns. The entrance, like the rest of the building, is made of stone and bricks that are white in color. The courthouse has a total of four rows of windows, all of them containing tall windows except for the bottommost one just above the lawn, which has shorter windows. Rectangular columns appear at each comer of the building and on the front of the building, all sitting above the level of the courthouse's doors. The columns on the front of the courthouse lead up to a pediment with a clock in its center. The roof of the courthouse it flat except for the pointed tops of the A-frame pediments that sit at the top of each side of the building.
[Old Morris Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX]
Photograph of the old Morris Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX. Loose rocks occupy the foreground of the photo, spreading across part of a paved parking lot that sits in front of the courthouse. The courthouse is surrounded by a small green lawn bordered by a short concrete wall, with short bushes and tall trees growing amongst the grass. The courthouse itself is made of white bricks constructed to form a building with a section projecting from each side of the central part of the building, creating a square cross shape. The front of the building faces the camera directly and has green doors in its center. Two rows of tall windows run across every side of the building, with brick triangles pointed down sitting between the tops of each window. At the top of the building is a small dome partially obscured from view by a white brick wall. A tall, thin metal structure rises from the top of the dome while powerlines crisscross the sky behind it.
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