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The Present Brown
County Courthouse -
Brownwood,
TexasThe
1917 courthouse is a remodeled version of the 1884 one. According to The
Courthouses of Texas book by Donald Dyal and Mavis Kelsey, the
remodeling was so complete that only the vault was left untouched.
Remodeled
by San Antonio architect Henry T. Phelps.
Style - Classical Revival
Material
- Brick |
Historical
Marker TextCourthouses
of Brown CountyBrown
County, created in 1856 and organized two years later, has had four courthouses.
Pioneer settler Welcome William Chandler donated land for the first courthouse,
a log cabin. The county moved the building twice, first two miles to the Billy
Connell Farm, then to this site after Greenleaf Fisk’s donation of land for a
new townsite resolved an 1868 dispute. Commissioners also added a second story
to the structure. A combination courthouse and jail built in 1876 served only
four years before it burned. Waco architectural firm Dodson & Dudley designed
a new building in 1884. The current Classical Revival courthouse, built in 1917-18,
incorporated interior walls and vaults from the prior structure.
(2007) |
Brown County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
Brown
County Courthouse in the 1940s
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/
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Brown
County Courthouse entrance
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, 2007 |
1884
Brown County Courthouse in the early 1900s before remodeling
Photo courtesy
texasoldphotos.com |
1936 Texas
Centennial MarkerBrown
CountyCreated August
27, 1856; Organized March 21, 1857. Named for Capt. Henry S. Brown; came to Texas
in 1824; Indian trader and fighter, commanded a company at the Battle of Velasco,
member of the Convention of 1832; county seat, Brownwood 1856; moved to new site
of same name, 1867.
(1936) |
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