The grand Beaux-Arts classical courthouse of 1916, a design similar to the Stephens County Courthouse (FC10), was encased in a late modern shell of smooth limestone and aluminum, with a massive addition made to the north in 1963. Ironically, the disposition of windowless stone corner blocks and the central zone of vertical piers with blue metal infill panels facing 7th Street reflect the original composition of advancing end bays and a central colonnade of monumental Ionic columns. Only one original courtroom survived the makeover. The unsympathetic treatment of the courthouse was a preview of how many of downtown Wichita Falls’s high-rise buildings were remodeled in the second half of the twentieth century, when classical facades were stripped and replaced with bland (if not just bad) stucco, aluminum, and glass curtain walls.