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Callahan County
Courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, May 2005 |
The Present
Callahan County Courthouse
Baird, Texas
Date - 1929
Architect - Voelcker and Dixon, Inc
Style - Texas Renaissance
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
Callahan County
Courthouse historical marker
100 W. 4th St.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, May 2005 |
Historical
Marker
Callahan County
Courthouse
The county seat
moved from Belle
Plain to Baird in 1883, and a courthouse,
designed by noted architect F.E.
Ruffini, was built at this site. The county hired another noted
architect, J. Riely Gordon, in 1900 for a larger courthouse; J.E.
Flanders was the supervising architect. In 1928, the growing county
hired Voelcker & Dixon Architects & Engineers of Wichita
Falls, who designed this Classical Revival courthouse, completed
the next year. Suggs and Dunlap contractors constructed the building,
which features intricate detailing, including acanthus leaves, rosettes,
medallions and cartouches.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2003 |
What is believed
to be the 1900 J. Reily Gordon Courthouse in Baird, Texas mentioned
in the historical marker above.
Photo courtesy THC |
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The 1929 Callahan
County Courthouse today
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, October 2009
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The 1929 Callahan
County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
Another early
view of the 1929 Callahan County Courthouse
1942 Photo courtesy THC |
Ruins of the
First (1877) Callahan County Courthouse in Belle
Plain
1930s photo courtesy TXDoT |
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