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Lamb County Courthouse

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1955, Atcheson and Atkinson. 100 6th Dr.

The courthouse and principal county and city institutions are grouped where 6th Drive crosses Phelps Avenue. The wide, symmetrically composed courthouse is a modernist composition of horizontal layers. The first story of thin-coursed, dark red brick is slightly recessed from the second floor of buff brick, a dark shadow making the upper floor appear suspended. The long, continuous band of second-floor windows is framed with stone, and a portal of polished black marble frames the entrance.

To the north at 100 W. 6th Street is the residential-looking Police Department building, formerly the city hall, built in 1930 by the Butler Company in a regional Spanish style that makes it look somewhat old-fashioned.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Lamb County Library (U.S. Post Office)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Lamb County Courthouse", [Littlefield, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PP11.

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, 374-374.

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