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The
1940 Palo Pinto County courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, May 2005 |
The Present
Palo Pinto Courthouse
Date - 1940
Architect - Preston M. Geren and M. A. Howell
Style - Texas Renaissance
Material - Sandstone from the 1882 courthouse
Though not grandiose like the Romanesque courthouses built in the
1890s, this 1940 building has its own
understated charm. It is an excellent example of a pre-War rural courthouse.
With its brass doorknobs and eagle-encrusted light fixtures, if one
was to imagine a young lawyer in a seersucker suit named Huey Piece
Long defending an overall-clad client, then one would be horribly
wrong. Huey Long never set foot in Palo Pinto County and besides he
was killed before this courthouse was built. |
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Stone
eagle over main entrance of the Palo Pinto County courthouse.
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson
May, 2005 |
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The
1940 Palo Pinto Courthouse
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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Another
view of the 1940 Palo Pinto Courthouse
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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| Palo Pinto has
had three courthouses: 1857, 1882 and 1940. |
The 1882
Palo Pinto County Courthouse
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The
1882 Palo Pinto County Courthouse
1939 photo courtesy TXDoT |
An earlier
view of the 1882 Palo Pinto County Courthouse
Photo courtesy THC |
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