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The current 1968
Baylor County courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, March 2012 |
The Present
Baylor County Courthouse
Seymour, Texas
Date - 1968
Architect - Pierce, Norris & Pace
Style - Modern
The present building stands on the site of the 1884 building. |
"Seymour
Court House in 1910"
Photo of the 1884 courthouse on display inside the current courthouse,
showing its original tower.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, March, 2012 |
The 1884 Baylor
County Courthouse
Postcard courtesy Lauren Bush,
City of Seymour Economic Development |
The 1884 Baylor
County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
"A drawing
of the 1884 Baylor County courthouse hanging in the county clerk's
office of the current courthouse. The dome was added after the original
clock tower was removed."
- Terry
Jeanson, April 2006 photo |
"One of
the surviving remnants of the 1884 Baylor County courthouse on the
grounds of the current courthouse."
- Terry
Jeanson, April 2006 photo |
Baylor
County Centennial Marker
Reset on Courthouse Lawn
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Baylor County
Centennial Marker on courthouse lawn
Photo courtesy Darlene Pittillo, May 2014 |
Baylor County
Centennial Marker
Photo courtesy Darlene Pittillo, May 2014 |
| Photo
courtesy Darlene Pittillo, May 2014 |
Barclay
Gibson Does More Than Centennials*
Darlene Pittillo wrote to TE in January asking what
had happened to the pink granite and bronze county "tablet" marker
that had once been at an intersection northeast of Seymour.
A message went out to Marker Master Barclay
Gibson who made a few phone calls from his undisclosed location
and got the story. Mr.
Gibson found out that the marker had been hit in an automobile
accident and county officials decided it would be safer if it was
relocated to the courthouse lawn. In thanks, Ms. Pittillo told Mr.
Gibson she would photograph the new installation the next time
she was in Seymour. And she did just
that.
In Mr. Gibson's
words: "She followed through and sent me some very nice pictures of
the marker in its new setting. It is a very nice, safe place. Good
work, Baylor County."
And good work, Barclay. Our thanks to Darlene Pittillo for the crisp
photos of the marker.
*Barclay
Gibson has tracked down nearly all of the 1,100 1936
Texas Centennial Markers across the state, fording streams, jumping
fences and coordinating with landowners to obtain permission to visit
to some of the most difficult-to-reach markers. |
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