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Ector County Courthouse

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1937, Elmer G. Withers; 1964, Peters and Fields. 300 N. Grant St.

The block-filling Ector County Courthouse is composed of an open ground-floor frame of concrete columns that creates deep first-floor arcades beneath a second-story solar screen of pale tan concrete panels with lozenge-shaped openings. Hidden (preservationists say entombed) within this building is the 40,000-square-foot, three-story courthouse designed by Withers and built in 1937. Peters and Fields gutted the old building and added an additional 60,000 square feet, with new courtrooms, jail facilities, central air-conditioning, and the perforated solar shell.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

415 North Grant Building (First National Bank Building)
Dunlap Company
Prosperity Bank Building (American Bank of Commerce)
Lincoln Tower (Hotel Lincoln)
Dee’s Bistro Grill (Ector County Public Library)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Ector County Courthouse", [Odessa, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT22.

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, 464-464.

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