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The Present
Brown County Courthouse -
Brownwood,
Texas
The 1917 courthouse
is a remodeled version of the 1884
one. According to The Courthouses of Texas book by Donald
Dyal and Mavis Kelsey, the remodeling was so complete that only
the vault was left untouched.
Remodeled by San Antonio
architect Henry T. Phelps.
Style - Classical Revival
Material - Brick |
Brown County
Courthouse entrance
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, 2007 |
Historical Marker
Text
Courthouses
of Brown County
Brown
County, created in 1856 and organized two
years later, has had four courthouses. Pioneer settler Welcome William
Chandler donated land for the first courthouse, a log cabin. The county
moved the building twice, first two miles to the Billy Connell Farm,
then to this site after Greenleaf Fisk’s donation of land for a new
townsite resolved an 1868 dispute. Commissioners also added a second
story to the structure. A combination courthouse and jail built in
1876 served only four years before it burned. Waco
architectural firm Dodson & Dudley designed a new building in 1884.
The current Classical Revival courthouse, built in 1917-18, incorporated
interior walls and vaults from the prior structure.
(2007) |
1884 Brown County
Courthouse in the early 1900s before remodeling
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
Brown County Courthouse
as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
Brown County
Courthouse in the 1940s
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
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