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The
1940 Palo Pinto County courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, April 2006 |
The
Present Palo Pinto CourthouseDate
- 1940
Architect - Preston M. Geren and M. A. Howell
Style - Texas Renaissance
Material - Sandstone from the 1882 courthouse
Though not grandiose like
the Romanesque courthouses built in the 1890s, this 1940
building has its own understated charm. It is an excellent example of a
pre-War rural courthouse. With its brass doorknobs and eagle-encrusted light fixtures,
if one was to imagine a young lawyer in a seersucker suit named Huey Piece Long
defending an overall-clad client, then one would be horribly wrong. Huey Long
never set foot in Palo Pinto County and besides he was killed before this courthouse
was built. |
| | Stone
eagle over main entrance of the Palo Pinto County courthouse.
Photo
courtesy Terry
Jeanson
May, 2005 | |
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| | | The
1940 Palo Pinto Courthouse
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com | |
| | Another
view of the 1940 Palo Pinto Courthouse
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com
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The
1882 Palo Pinto County Courthouse |
The
1882 Palo Pinto County Courthouse
1939 photo courtesy TXDoT |
An
earlier view of the 1882 Palo Pinto County Courthouse
Photo courtesy THC |
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