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The Dallas-based architects designed the courthouse in a belated and simplified rendition of the setback courthouse form prevalent in the 1930s. A large six-story central block is flanked by two-story blocks, all sheathed in limestone. The central block has a vertical stack of windows outlined by simple stone frames, and the lateral blocks have recessed stacks of vertical windows and spandrels to give a very lean pilaster effect, well proportioned and imposingly austere. The previous classical building (1910, C. H. Page) stood in the center of the two-block square on axis with Broadway. When this courthouse was built on the eastern half of the square, Broadway was cut through, leaving a public park on the western half of the square.