You are here

Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains and West » Panhandle and South Plains » Paducah to Hereford » Clarendon and Vicinity (Donley County) » Donley County Courthouse

Donley County Courthouse

-A A +A
1891, Bulger and Rapp; 2003 restored, Volz and Associates. 300 S. Sully St.

For the county’s first and only courthouse, the commissioners employed C. W. Bulger and Isaac Hamilton Rapp of Trinidad, Colorado, who produced a Richardsonian Romanesque design. Built of red brick with contrasting white stone trim, the courthouse is asymmetrical in plan and picturesque, unusual among the Richardsonian courthouses of Texas. The building is entered through a corner entrance porch at the base of a square tower. This skewed salient is played off against a round tower on the adjacent corner, and against a great polygonal wing signifying the courtroom. The building’s towers, dormers, and chimneys were removed following storm damage in 1937. After their brief partnership, Bulger relocated, first to Galveston and then, after 1904, to Dallas, where he and his son Clarence pursued an interstate practice designing Baptist churches. The courthouse was restored to its picturesque profile in 2003 with funding from the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
×

Data

What's Nearby

First United Methodist Church of Clarendon
St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church
Martin-Lowe House
Clarendon Motor Company Building

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Donley County Courthouse", [Clarendon, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH7.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 364-365.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,