Year Built: 1958
Architect: J. N. McCammon
The Nacogdoches County Courthouse is located in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Designed by architect J. N. McCammon, this is certainly one of the more unusual courthouse designs in Texas. In his guidebook to Texas courthouses, Dr. Mavis Kelsey notes that the building has been de-scribed as “early-motel” style. This style is related to the low-slung ranch house designs that were popular in mid-century America. (The photograph on the right is the original building; it has since been altered and extended.) The original building, with its broad front porch facing a lawn, is residential, the “home” of county government, if you will. Very informal and un-institutional, the courthouse was intended to fit in to the modern look of suburban America in the 1950’s. All well and good, except that as a symbol of Nacogdoches County government, the courthouse gets lost in the forest of other commercial buildings fronting the main “drag” of Nacogdoches.
From the 254 Texas Courthouses Website.
