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Eastland County Courthouse

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1928, Dudley Green for Lang and Witchell. 100 W. Main St.

This, the fourth courthouse for Eastland County, was funded from profits of the 1917 oil boom. Designed by Green in Lang and Witchell’s Dallas office, the courthouse is a forceful composition of advancing and receding masses, with a central six-story portion with a one-story entrance loggia and projecting lateral three-story wings. The overall form resembles a giant throne (of law and justice). The massing of the courthouse is similar to that of the San Angelo City Hall (SS3) and the Cottle County Courthouse (PH1). Texan architects employed this massing through the 1930s with ever-increasing simplification, culminating in the Jack County Courthouse (DD22) of 1940. The first floor and raised basement are clad in terra-cotta, the upper floors with buff brick; the top floor, faced with terra-cotta, displays large shields on the end bays and enlarged acroteria across the parapet. Eastland was platted by Kentucky-born surveyor Charles U. Connellee, who came to Texas in 1874 and promoted the town’s development. His one-story house built in 1876 at 515 S. Lamar Street acquired a second story in 1924.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Eastland County Museum (First State Bank)
Commercial Buildings in Downtown
First United Methodist Church
Eastland High School
Prairie Oil and Gas Company Houses

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Eastland County Courthouse", [Eastland, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FC14.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 289-290.

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