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The
Present Ector County Courthouse -
Odessa,
Texas Date
- 1964
Architect - Peters and Fields
Style - Moderne
Material - Concrete
and steel
Location
- 3rd & Grant Ave.
The building is built around the 1938 courthouse. It has all the distinctive characteristics
of the period.
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Historical
Marker: (on the courthouse square)Ector
County Courthouse
Seat
of justice for Ector, created out of Tom Green County in 1887 and organized in
1891.
The 1891 courthouse was frame, the remodelled
town sanitarium, moved to the present square. Its first floor had rooms for the
sheriff, court clerks and Odessa school, while the county and district courtroom
was upstairs. As the only public building in town, it provided space for dances.
socials and church services. Picnics and baptizings were held at the windmill
and tank on the northwest corner of the square. As townsite restriction banned
the sale of liquor, Odessa was usually quiet. However, fights broke out when settlers
rushed to the courthouse to file claims on public lands.
In 1904
a 2-story red stone courthouse was built just east of the early one. On the lawn
in 1906 the Christian church was organized. At that time Odessa ha 400 people
and little hope for growth, because of drouths and their effects on cattle raising.
After oil discoveries of 1926 stimulated Ector's development, a 3-story cement
building was erected in 1938.
The fourth structure was dedicated
April 12, 1964, by governor John Connally.
1964 |
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Ector
County Courthouse Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson |
The
1964 Ector County Courthouse
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/
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The
1938 Ector County Courthouse
Odessa,
Texas Architect
- Elmer Withers |
The
1938 Ector County Courthouse
1939 Photo courtesy TXDoT |
Another
view of the 1938 Ector County Courthouse
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/
%7Etxpstcrd/ |
Postcard
text: "Beautiful Modern Ector County Court House"
Postcard courtesy
www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
| Oil painting
of the 1904 2-story red stone Ector County courthouse displayed at east side entrance
of current courthouse. |
| The
1904 Ector County Courthouse |
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