Year Built: 1940 Architect: Louis Gohmert The Titus County Courthouse is located in Mount Pleasant, Texas. Alas, all four of these courthouses are one and the same building.  The historic 1895 building, designed by F.B. & W.S. Hull, was “modernized” in 1940, clad in 1962 by architect Louis Gohmert and then “remodeled” in 1995 by Eubanks…

Year Built: 1933 Architect: Elmer G. Withers The Upshur County Courthouse is located in Gilmer, Texas.  

Year Built: 1925 Architect: E. H. Eads The Wheeler County Courthouse is located in Wheeler, Texas. Named for Royal T. Wheeler, an early Texas jurist, Wheeler County was created by the Texas State Legislature in 1876. In 1879 the county was organized and Mobeetie (then known as Sweetwater), the only town in the county, became the…

Year Built: 1908-09 Architect: Elmer George Withers The Swisher County Courthouse is located in Tulia, Texas.                  

Year Built: 1908 Architect: Robert G. Kirsch The Randall County Courthouse is located in Canyon, Texas.    

Year Built: 1884 Architect: William H. Wilson The Red River County Courthouse is located in Clarksville, Texas. Records date from 1836. Fifth courthouse for county. Built 1885. Italian Renaissance design. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1966

Year Built: 1913 Architect: Elmer George Withers The Roberts County Courthouse is located in Miami, Texas 🏛️ Roberts County Courthouse: Frontier Elegance on the Caprock Miami, Texas — Tucked into the rolling grasslands of the eastern Panhandle, the town of Miami (pronounced “My-am-uh” by locals) is the modest but mighty seat of Roberts County, one of…

Year Built: 1982 Architect: T. Renfro The King County Courthouse is located in Guthrie, Texas 🏛️ King County Courthouse: Quiet Authority on the Rolling Plains of Guthrie, Texas Guthrie, Texas — With a population of fewer than 300 residents, Guthrie might be one of the smallest county seats in Texas, but don’t let its size fool…

Year Built: 1935 Architect: Voelcker & Dickson The Knox County Courthouse is located in Benjamin, Texas. Erected in Benjamin in 1891, when the officials of Knox County were: J.J. Truscott – judge; W.H. Benedict, T.P. Reeder, J.A. Spinks, G.B. Stewart, commissioners; T.D. Isbell – sheriff. Rock structure, replacing wooden courthouse of 1886, was in use until…

Year Built: 1917 Architect: Barry & Smith and Sanguinet & Staats The Lamar County Courthouse is located in Paris, Texas. The March 1916 fire that left downtown Paris in ruins ravaged Lamar County’s massive 1897 Romanesque courthouse and tower, once thought indestructible. On April 20, 1916, the Lamar County Commissioners Court chose local designers and builders…

Year Built: 1955 Architect: Atcheson & Atkinson The Lamb County Courthouse is located in Littlefield, Texas.   The Lamb County Courthouse: A Modern Monument Rooted in Rural West Texas History If you’ve ever driven through the windswept High Plains of West Texas and found yourself in Littlefield, chances are you’ve passed by the Lamb County Courthouse….

Year Built: 1916 Architect: W. M. Rice The Lipscomb County Courthouse is located in Lipscomb, Texas 🏛️ Lipscomb County Courthouse: A Romanesque Jewel on the Texas-Oklahoma Line Lipscomb, Texas — Tucked into the far northeastern corner of the Texas Panhandle, Lipscomb County is one of the least populated counties in the state—but its courthouse stands with…

Year Built: 1889 Architect: W.C. Dodson and Dudley The Fannin County Courthouse is located in Bonham, Texas. Commissioners Court first met at Jacob Black’s cabin on Feb. 26, 1836, before Fannin County was officially organized. In 1838 Warren (near present Ambrose in Grayson County) was named the county seat. The courthouse built there in 1840…

Year Built: 1950 Architect: Marvin Stiles The Floyd County Courthouse is located in Floydada, Texas 🏛️ Floyd County Courthouse: Prairie Classicism in the Heart of the Caprock Floydada, Texas — Perched atop the Caprock Escarpment in the South Plains, Floydada is a town shaped by agriculture, perseverance, and wind-swept ambition. In the center of its…

Year Built: 1910 Architect: McDonald Brothers The Foard County Courthouse is located in Crowell, Texas. This is the second courthouse to serve Foard County since its creation in 1891. By 1909, the first courthouse proved too small for the needs of the county, and voters passed a bond election for the purpose of building a…

Year Built: 1928 Architect: W. R. Kaufman The Gray County Courthouse is located in Pampa, Texas. 🏛️ Gray County Courthouse: Prairie Grandeur in Pampa’s Civic Heart Pampa, Texas — In the wide-open heart of the Texas Panhandle, where oil derricks and wind turbines dot the horizon, the Gray County Courthouse rises with quiet confidence. Located…

Year Built: 1936 Architect: Voelcker and Dixon The Grayson County Courthouse is located in Sherman, Texas.  

Year Built: 1931 Architect: David S. Castle of the architectural firm Townes, lightfoot and Funk The Hansford County Courthouse is located in Spearman, Texas 🏛️ Hansford County Courthouse: Prairie Classicism in Spearman, Texas Spearman, Texas — In the far reaches of the Texas Panhandle, where the sky stretches uninterrupted and grain elevators dominate the skyline,…

Year Built: 1908 Architect: R. H. Stuckey The Hardeman County Courthouse is located in Quanah, Texas. Hardeman County Courthouse Hardeman County was created in 1858 and named for early Texas legislators Bailey and Thomas Jones Hardeman. It was not organized, however, until 1884 when the population had increased enough to have a formal county government….

Year Built: 1910 Architect: H.A. Overbeck (Martin, Byrnes and Johnston) The Hale County Courthouse is located in Plainview, Texas.           

Year Built: 1906 Architect: O. G. Rouquemore The Hartley County Courthouse is located in Channing, Texas. 🏛️ Hartley County Courthouse: A Lone Sentinel in the High Plains of Channing, Texas Channing, Texas — Set against the wide, windblown plains of the northwestern Panhandle, the Hartley County Courthouse in Channing offers a fascinating glimpse into frontier-era…

Year Built: 1928 Architect: Smith and Praeger The Camp County Courthouse is located in Pittsburg, Texas. The Texas Legislature created Camp County from the northern part of Upshur County in 1874, and voters chose Pittsburg as their county seat. The county built its first courthouse in 1881. As Pittsburg grew, the two-story brick edifice became…

Year Built: 1950 Architect: J.C. Berry, Kerr and Kerr The Carson County Courthouse is located in Panhandle, Texas 🏛️ Carson County Courthouse: Art Deco Authority in the Heart of Panhandle, Texas Panhandle, Texas — The town’s name says it all: this is true Panhandle country, where long trains roll across the plains and wheat fields…

Year Built: 1939 Architect: Townes & Funk The Castro County Courthouse is located in Dimmitt, Texas. 🏛️ Castro County Courthouse: Art Deco Resilience on the High Plains Dimmitt, Texas — At the intersection of history, agriculture, and architectural ambition sits the Castro County Courthouse, a striking Art Deco structure that stands as a testament to…

Year Built: 1939 Architect: Townes & Funk The Childress County Courthouse is located in Childress, Texas. The 1891 courthouse is actually the second Childress County courthouse.  Childress City, the first county seat, was home to a wooden courthouse, built in 1887.  However, within a few months, the county seat was moved four miles, to the…

Year Built: 1926, 1968 Architect: W. R. Kaufman, Stiles, Roberts and Messersmith The Cochran County Courthouse is located in Morton, Texas. 🏛️ Cochran County Courthouse: Streamlined Justice in the Far West Plains Morton, Texas — Out on the western edge of the Texas South Plains, just a few miles from the New Mexico border, stands…

Year Built: 1931 Architect: Berry & Hatch The Collingsworth County Courthouse is located in Wellington, Texas.

Year Built: 1911 Architect: Lang & Witchell The Cooke County Courthouse is located in Gainesville, Texas. Settlement of the area now known as Cooke County began in late 1845. The county was created by the State Legislature in 1848 and named for William G. Cooke, Republic of Texas Quartermaster General and a participant in the…

Year Built: 1930 Architect: Voelcker and Dixon The Cottle County Courthouse is located in 🏛️ Cottle County Courthouse: Classical Revival in the Rolling Plains Paducah, Texas — Where the West begins to soften into rolling plains and mesquite breaks, the town of Paducahstands proud as the seat of Cottle County. And in the center of…

Year Built: 1922 Architect: Smith and Townes The Dallam County Courthouse is located in Dalhart, Texas. 🏛️ Dallam County Courthouse: A Prairie Stronghold in Dalhart, Texas Dalhart, Texas — At the crossroads of two railroads and two counties sits Dalhart, the unique seat of Dallam County, where the courthouse stands as a resilient symbol of…

Year Built: 1910 Architect: Chamberlin & Co. The Deaf Smith County Courthouse is located in Hereford, Texas. 🏛️ Deaf Smith County Courthouse: A Testament to Tenacity in Hereford, Texas Hereford, Texas — Known as the “Beef Capital of the World,” Hereford is a city built on cattle, railroads, and wind-blown resolve. At the center of…

Year Built: 1940 Architect: Hoke Smith The Delta County Courthouse is located in Cooper, Texas. The cornerstone of the 1899 Delta County courthouse is all that remains of this ornate building that stood in the central town square of Cooper, the county seat.  Unfortunately, there is no mention of the cornerstone of the designer of…

Year Built: 1923 Architect: Page Brothers, et al The Hall County Courthouse is located in Memphis, Texas 🏛️ Hall County Courthouse: A Neoclassical Beacon in the Rolling Red Plains of Memphis, Texas Memphis, Texas — Set against the wide skies and gently rolling caprock of the South Plains, the Hall County Courthouse stands as a…

Year Built: 1912 Architect: Elmer George Withers The Armstrong County Courthouse was built in Claude, Texas. In 1887, Claude became a town and it was named after Claude Ayers at his suggestion. Claude was the engineer of the first train of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway to travel through the area. Claude won a…

Year Built: 1890 Architect: Bulger and Rapp The Donley County Courthouse is located in Clarendon, Texas. Clarendon is also the county seat of Donley County. 🏛️ Donley County Courthouse: Romanesque Grandeur in the Red River Valley Clarendon, Texas — Nestled on the edge of the Red River Valley and once known as the “Athens of the…

Year Built: 1925 Architect: M. C. Butler The Bailey County Courthouse was built in Muleshoe, Texas. Bailey County Courthouse: Justice on the South Plains Frontier Muleshoe, Texas — If you’ve ever traveled the wide and quiet plains of far West Texas, you’ll know that the wind speaks volumes—and in Bailey County, it carries stories of…

Year Built: 1985 Architect: Thomas and Embeton Associates, Texarkana The Bowie County Courthouse was built in New Boston, Texas, though its legal county seat is Boston, Texas. Boston was named for storekeeper in the early settlement, W.J. Boston. Texarkana, a city in Bowie, is a portmanteau of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The county is named…

Year Built: 1922 Architect: Smith & Townes The Briscoe County Courthouse was built in Silverton, Texas. The county is named after Andrew Briscoe (November 25, 1810 – October 4, 1849). Briscoe was a soldier and a revolutionary. Briscoe was an organizer of the Texas Revolution and was a signee of the Texas Declaration of Independence….