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Wood County Courthouse
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2007 |
The Present
Wood County Courthouse
- Quitman, Texas
Date - 1925
Architect - C. H. Leinbach
Style - Classical Revival
Material - Brick
An addition was built in 1949, and the courthouse had undergone several
remodeling since. |
Historical Marker:
WOOD
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
The Texas legislature
created Wood County
in 1850 with Quitman as the county
seat. The county first used a log courthouse on the south side of
the square before building a two-story frame structure, which burned
in 1878. The county’s third courthouse, designed by the noted F.E.
Ruffini, was completed in 1884. It burned in 1924, and the county
hired C.H. Leinbach of Dallas
to design a new courthouse; Rice Construction Co. served as general
contractor. The county added an annex in 1950, but the courthouse
retains its Classical Revival style, with features including a grand
stair with raised entry, a four column temple front, and a full entablature
with dentil molding and pediment.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2003 |
The 1925 Wood
County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
The 1925 Wood
County courthouse today
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, December 2006 |
An earlier view
of the 1925 Wood County Courthouse
Photo circa 1930 courtesy THC |
The 1883 Wood
County Courthouse
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The 1883 Wood
County Courthouse in Quitman
Photo circa 1909 courtesy THC |
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