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Historical
Marker - Courthouse square (corner of US 83 and FM 380) Concho
County CourthouseFirst
permanent courthouse for Concho County. Built in 1886, replacing crude early structure.
Architects were the brothers F.E. and Oscar Ruffini, who also planned and constructed
first main building at the University of Texas. As F.E. Ruffini lived only long
enough to draw plans for this courthouse, his brother completed it. Architecture
is "French Second Empire". Use of rusticated stone -- which came from a quarry
only a few miles away -- is unusual in this style.
Recorded
Texas Historic Landmark - 1962 |
Concho
County Courthouse today
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, December 2006 |
Concho
County Courthouse Old Photo
Courtesy Virginia Eubanks |
Concho County
Courthouse Old PhotoMy
mother, 86, gave me a small photo of the Concho County, Texas, courthouse, probably
taken shortly after it was built. There is a horse and buggy in front of the courthouse
and several one-story buildings in the background, but no trees around the courthouse.
The photographer’s name on the reverse is J. Y. Lowe, Miles Station, Texas.
The photo was sent to her mother in Georgia before she was married by a friend
who went to Texas. - Virginia Eubanks, January 15, 2011 |
| Back
of Concho County Courthouse old photo |
Concho
County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT |
| "The cornerstone
on the southwest corner of the courthouse has O(scar) Ruffini's name instead of
his brother Frederick, who drew the plans for the courthouse. Frederick died before
the courthouse was completed." - Terry
Jeanson |
| "The district
courtroom in the center of the second floor spans the courthouse from the north
to the south end." - Terry
Jeanson |
| "Looking up the
west side staircase at the metal pressed ceiling" - Terry
Jeanson |
Another
view of Concho County Courthouse
Photo courtesy Lou Ann Herda, 2000 |
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