Anderson County Courthouse (Palestine)
Architect: Page Brothers: CH Page and Louis Charles Page.
Year Built:1914.
The Anderson County Courthouse is located in Palestine, Texas. The current Courthouse is the fourth structure to serve as the seat of Anderson County government. The courthouse uses a Beaux-Arts bi-axial arrangement with a rotunda crowned by an inner art glass dome with an outer dome surmounted by Lady Justice. The building is three stories with a raised basement. It is finished in brick, rockand terra cotta. The design includes projecting porticos with pediments on all four elevations each with six ionic columns.
Anderson County was created by the Texas Legislature on March 24, 1846, and named for former Republic of Texas Vice-President Kenneth L. Anderson. The first Anderson County Courthouse was a one-story wood frame structure built in 1847. It was replaced by a two-story brick courthouse in 1856. The third courthouse, built of brick and completed in 1886, by noted Texas courthouse architect Wesley Clark Dodson (1829-1914) of Waco. It was destroyed by arson in 1913 purportedly to destroy incriminating documents.
The courthouse underwent major restoration in 1986 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 1992.
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