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Bandera County
Courthouse today
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, January 2008 |
The Present
Bandera County Courthouse
- Bandera, Texas
Date - 1890
Architect - B. F. Trester
Style - Spanish Renaissance Revival
Material - Native limestone |
Historical Marker:
Bandera County
Courthouse
First permanent
courthouse for county,
which was organized in 1856, but used makeshift quarters for offices
and courtrooms until this building was erected 1890-91.
Style is local version of the Second Renaissance Revival. White limestone
for the structure was quarried locally.
B.F. Trester of San
Antonio drew the plans--for $5.
Contractors: Ed Braden & Sons. Interior was remodeled and a wing added
in 1966.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1972 |
The 1890 Bandera
County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
Photographer's
Note:
"The cupola has been recently reconstructed and painted its original
color. The painted on clock faces read 7:45 when the courthouse was
built, but now read 10:10. No one that I talked to at the courthouse
knew the significance of either painted on time." - Terry
Jeanson February, 2007 |
The Bandera County
courthouse
Photo courtesy Richard and Judy Berger |
1889
Boone County Courthouse
Burlington, Kentucky
Photo courtesy Boone County Historic Preservation Review Board |
1890
Bandera County Courthouse
Bandera, Texas
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
The 1869 Bandera
County courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, July 2006 |
Date - 1869
Material - Limestone
Location - on Maple Street, just a block from the current courthouse.
The former courthouse is now a county library
Historical Marker:
First Bandera
County Courthouse
Georgia
stonemason Henry White is credited with building this structure in
1868. In 1877, a store occupied the first floor and the Masonic Lodge
met on the top floor. County commissioners bought the building that
year to provide space for county offices, then housed in rented quarters.
The county retained ownership of the structure after a larger courthouse
was erected in 1890.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1979 |
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