This, the fifth county courthouse on this site, replaced a brick courthouse of 1889 by Eugene T. Heiner that burned in 1968. The brick building is a modern interpretation of Greek Revival forms, with a two-level wraparound gallery and a hipped roof similar to a Louisiana plantation house.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Walker County Courthouse", [Huntsville, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-HL1.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 26-26.
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